Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988–2009

Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2012.04.004

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“…This explanation is fundamentally different from that for western countries, which emphasizes skill biased technological change. At the same time, this result is consistent with most of the existing research on China emphasizing the role of institutional change (Zhang et al, 2005, Meng et al, 2010, Cai et al, 2010. Another finding is that China's entry into WTO has a positive effect on the enlargement of upper half distributions.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Firstly, it is well established that the public sectors and private sectors have different wage determination mechanisms, with the private sector being more market oriented (see Meng, 2000, Dong and Bowles, 2002, Xing, 2008. As more workers are absorbed by the private sector, the wage structure will change consequently.…”

Section: Economic Reform In the Late 1990s And In The New Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Taking this into consideration, Lemieux (2006) finds that the increase in residual inequality in US is partly due to composition effect. Besides price effect and composition effect, other factors that may have impact on residual inequality include measurement error, and change of unobservable skill distribution (Meng, et al, 2010) 2 . What's the underlying forces driving the increase of residual inequality is still hotly debated.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The most recent related researches are Cai et al, (2010) and Meng et al (2010). Using the data from the Urban Household Income and Expenditure Survey (UHIES), Cai et al (2010) decompose the income inequality into between-group inequality and within-group inequality.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As their focus is on urban income and consumption inequality, they don't consider the price effect versus composition effect issue. Meng et al (2010)'s data comes from the same source. But their data covers only 16 provinces while that of Cai et al (2010) covers all the provinces.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995–2007

Xing

2012

China Economic Review

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Section: Economic Reform In the Late 1990s And In The New Centurymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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2012

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Public health insurance and the labor market: Evidence from China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance

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This study provides empirical evidence on the labor market effects of public health insurance using evidence from China. In 2007, China launched a national public health insurance program, Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI), targeting residents in urban areas who were not insured by employment‐based health insurance. Using panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, I identify the impacts of the program based on its staggered implementation across cities. I find that URBMI did not have a significant average causal effect on labor force participation. However, it did increase employment mobility, as evidenced by the decrease in long‐term employment and expansion of fixed‐term contract jobs and self‐employment. After the program was implemented, job lock declined and job flexibility increased, especially among women, the less educated, and individuals with good health status. The results also suggest increased employment for unhealthy workers, indicating a direct health improvement effect.

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Left‐behind villages, left‐behind children: Migration and the cognitive achievement of rural children in China

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Huang

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Population Space and Place

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Although the potential effects of migration on the cognitive development of children in origin communities reflect both household‐ and community‐level processes, few studies have examined how community‐level migration affects child cognitive development. By applying multilevel methods to nationally representative data of 2,248 children from 427 villages in China, we examine whether village migration intensity influences child cognitive ability and if so, what accounts for this influence. The findings suggest lower cognitive achievement in communities that experience high migration intensity. Living in a community with a large proportion of people who have migrated away from the community is associated with a 3.57‐unit decrease in verbal scores and a 1.54‐unit decrease in maths scores, which is equivalent to missing 1.67 and 0.87 years of schooling, respectively. A possible explanation for this effect is the change in demographic composition such that communities are depleted of better educated adults.

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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988–2009

Cited by 128 publications

References 31 publications

Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995–2007

Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995–2007

Public health insurance and the labor market: Evidence from China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance

Left‐behind villages, left‐behind children: Migration and the cognitive achievement of rural children in China

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