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Motherhood and Gender Wage Differentials within a Chinese Firm

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  • Yi Chen
  • Hong Zhang
  • Li-An Zhou

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The within-firm gender wage gap is an important part of the overall gender gap in the labor market. This paper describes how parenthood is associated with the within-firm gender gap using a personnel data set from a large Chinese company. The wage gap is small in the early stages of careers and becomes increasingly evident when female employees get married and have children. Whereas the short-term peak around childbirth can be explained by women’ reduced working hours, the long-term trend is caused by women’s concentration in lower-level jobs. Our study highlights the importance of internal gender segregation in understanding gender differentials.

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  • Yi Chen & Hong Zhang & Li-An Zhou, 2021. "Motherhood and Gender Wage Differentials within a Chinese Firm," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 70(1), pages 283-320.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:ecdecc:doi:10.1086/711652
    DOI: 10.1086/711652
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    1. Wei Si, 2022. "Higher education expansion and gender norms: evidence from China," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 35(4), pages 1821-1858, October.
    2. Meng, Lingsheng & Zhang, Yunbin & Zou, Ben, 2023. "The motherhood penalty in China: Magnitudes, trends, and the role of grandparenting," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(1), pages 105-132.

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