The Wage Gap between State and Private Enterprises in China: Counterfactual Analysis Based on Quantile Regression
Its widely wondered why workers in state enterprises enjoy higher remuneration. Using a counterfactual analysis based on quantile regression and Chinese household income project survey data (1995-2007), this thesis tries to explore and explain the wage gap between state and private enterprises. The decomposition results show wage gap is mainly caused by ownership segmentation while human capital differences contribute little, but the nonhuman capital traits do work. Whats more, it is work experience yields and base pay that play an absolutely dominant role in ownership segmentation effect, of which the asymmetry is due to asymmetries in education return and work experience yields. During 1995 to 2007, the wage gap firstly increases and then narrows significantly at the low tail of wage distribution, the reduction of nonhuman capital traits accounting for the former, and the sharp decline in ownership segmentation accounting for the latter. Reinforcement of segmentation leads to the slight expansion of wage gap at the high tail during 1995 to 2002. However, the wage gap shrinks so little when segmentation lessens during 2002 to 2007, which is because the effect is offset by the relative decline of individual traits including human capital in private enterprises.
State enterprises Private enterprises Wage gap Quantile regression Counterfactual analysis
WANG Tong-yi JIN Zhang-feng FENG Yi-feng YAO Xian-guo
College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, 310027
国际会议
2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)
印度海德拉巴
英文
203-209
2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）