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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

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  • Gustafsson, Björn Anders

    (Göteborg University)

  • Li, Shi

    (Beijing Normal University)

  • Nivorozhkina, Ludmila

    (Rostov State Economic University)

  • Wan, Haiyuan

    (Beijing Normal University)

Abstract

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We confirm that earnings inequality has increased rapidly in both countries and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude.

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  • Gustafsson, Björn Anders & Li, Shi & Nivorozhkina, Ludmila & Wan, Haiyuan, 2014. "Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium," IZA Discussion Papers 8241, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    China; gender wage gap; wage inequality; wages; Russia;
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    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
    • P23 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population

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