Examines Wage Determination Mechanism
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A major determinant of the primary distribution of national income, wages will have tremendous impacts on both social equity and economic efficiency in China. Wages in China: An Economic Analysis presents the latest research results on the transformation of China’s wages formation mechanism since the adoption of the Reform and Opening Up policy.
This 3-volume series looks at the impact from the institutional evolution of the wage system, social networks, and geographical factors on the determination of wages. After reviewing the history of China’s wage policies and systematic transformation, the author examines the collective negotiation system as an example of institutional changes to explore the impacts on employees’ wages, and does an empirical study on the shrinkage in labor’s share of national income by using industrial and provincial data. Based on the discussion of local policy-making decisions under fiscal federalism in China, the author also analyzes the regional wage differences with economic geographical and regional policy variances. The perspective of inter-industrial wage spillover is also followed to explain the wage differences and convergence paradox.
Contents
Wage Determination
Chapter 5 Trade Liberalization, Export Behavior, and Enterprise Wage Determination: Evidence from China’s Industrial Enterprises
Chapter 6 Industrial Agglomeration and Wages in the Industrial Sector: Evidence from China’s Prefecture-level Cities
Wage Disparity
Chapter 7 Inter-Industry Income Inequality: An Increasingly Important Cause of Income Differentials in Urban China
Chapter 8 Who Entered High Income Industries? The Roles of Social Network, Hukou, and Labor Productivity
Chapter 9 Discrimination against Migrant Workers in the Urban Labor Markets in China: Evidence from Census Data
Chapter 10 Market Access, Agglomeration, and Wage Differentials in China’s Service Sectors
About the Editor
Zhang Jun is a Changjiang Professor of Economics and Director of the China Center for Economic Studies at Fudan University in China. He is the Chief Editor of World Economic Paper and has been on the editorial board of Economic Systems, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, China Economic Journal, and many other Chinese and English journals. Zhang received his doctorate in economics from Fudan University, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Sussex in Britain. He authored and edited many books including Thirty Years of Reform and Opening Up,Transformation of the Chinese Enterprises, and Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics.