Gender Wage Differentials in China's Urban Labour Market

labour market, wage differentials, gender discrimination

Migration and Labor Mobility in China

China has witnessed the largest labor migration since the reform and opening up policies were implemented. According to the most recent statistics, the total number of rural to urban migrant workers reached 136 million. Migrants are defined as persons who have left out of township for more than 6 months. The migration flow has propelled the economic and societal transition in China through labor productivity enhancement and social restructuring. Accordingly, the Chinese government has improved the migration policies with increasing migration flow and the changes of labor market situations. This report is organized as follows. Section one briefly introduces when and how the migration started by reviewing the history, size and trend, impacts of migration in China and the vulnerability of migrants. Section two reviews the main migration policy changes in the past three decades. Section three illuminates the Lewisian turning point that marks economic development and transitioning in China. Section four discusses the relevance of China’s experiences to other developing economies in terms of economic development and migration policy changes.Migration in China, Labor mobility, Impact of crisis

The great proletarian cultural revolution, disruptions to education, and returns to schooling in urban China

In determining whether a country's higher education system should be expanded, it is important for policymakers first to determine the extent to which high private returns to post-secondary education are an indication of the scarcity of graduates instead of the high unobserved ability of students who choose to attend post-secondary education. To this end, the paper identifies the returns to schooling in urban China using individual-level variation in educational attainment caused by exogenous city-wide disruptions to education during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. For city-cohorts who experienced greater disruptions, children's educational attainment became less correlated with that of their fathers and more influenced by whether their fathers held administrative positions. The analysis calculates returns to college education using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large cities in 2001. The results are consistent with the selection of high-ability students into higher education. The analysis also demonstrates that these results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection bias associated with migration, or by alternative pathways through which the Cultural Revolution could have affected adult productivity.Education For All,Tertiary Education,Secondary Education,Primary Education,Population Policies

Gender wage differentials in China's urban labour market

This paper describes and decomposes wage differences between female and male workers. The results indicate that females receive low wages because of unequal pay within sectors, and that the wage gap caused by the difference in sectoral attainment is small. The results also reveal that a lion’s share of the wage differential between females and males is attributable to discrimination rather than to the human capital difference between the genders. Eliminating discriminations against females with a focus on intra-sectoral inequality is crucial for reducing female/male wage differentials

Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Social Welfare in China

This chapter investigates poverty and social welfare among China’s minority groups. Focusing on the Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, and Uygur populations, China’s five largest minority groups, as well as other minorities in the aggregate, this chapter will begin by providing an introduction to the classification of ethnic groups in China. We consider the relationship of this classification scheme to the concept of indigenous populations, and develop working definitions of minority status and ethnic group for use in the chapter. We then discuss recent economic trends and introduce some of the main government policies targeted toward ethnic minorities. With this context established, we introduce the data employed in the chapter, namely the 2002 rural sample of the Chinese Household Income Project and recent censuses and surveys. We then proceed to the main body of the report. We present empirical evidence about demographics and geography and investigate ethnic disparities in poverty rates, income and employment, educational access and attainment, health care, and access to social programs. We close with a summary of main findings and their implications for development activities in minority areas and for further policy research on ethnic stratification

L’impact des envois de fonds des migrants sur la réduction de la pauvreté et sur les dépenses de consommation des ménages en milieu rural

RÉSUMÉ : Cet article étudie l’impact des envois de fonds des migrants sur la réduction de la pauvreté et sur les dépenses de consommation des ménages en milieu rural à partir de données provenant d’une enquête effectuée dans les provinces du Jiangsu et de l’Anhui. L’article montre que les envois de fonds jouent un rôle important dans la réduction de la pauvreté rurale. Il révèle également la tendance des ménages ruraux à utiliser ces transferts monétaires pour les dépenses de la vie courante plutôt que pour les dépenses d’investissement, telles que le logement ou la santé

L’impact des envois de fonds des migrants sur la réduction de la pauvreté et sur les dépenses de consommation des ménages en milieu rural

RÉSUMÉ : Cet article étudie l’impact des envois de fonds des migrants sur la réduction de la pauvreté et sur les dépenses de consommation des ménages en milieu rural à partir de données provenant d’une enquête effectuée dans les provinces du Jiangsu et de l’Anhui. L’article montre que les envois de fonds jouent un rôle important dans la réduction de la pauvreté rurale. Il révèle également la tendance des ménages ruraux à utiliser ces transferts monétaires pour les dépenses de la vie courante plutôt que pour les dépenses d’investissement, telles que le logement ou la santé

Prediction method of shield tunneling parameters in pebble stratum formed by weathered granite and quartzite

The pebble formation formed by weathered quartzite and granite is usually of high strength, strong permeability and poor self stability, which brings great difficulties to shield tunneling. It is necessary to adjust the tunneling parameters at any time to prevent the consequences of instability of the tunnel face, loss of stratum and surface settlement caused by the imbalance of the soil bin pressure. GA algorithm is embedded into PSO algorithm for parameter optimization, and grey theory is combined to establish the prediction model of soil chamber pressure based on grey least square support vector machine, which can solve the problem of difficult control of tunneling parameters in pebble stratum formed by weathered quartzite and granite. Research indicates: GA-PSO-GLSSVM chamber Earth pressure prediction model enhances the EPB chamber Earth pressure forecast accuracy in complicated strata by integrating the global search capability of the GA algorithm, the quick convergence of the PSO algorithm, and the anti-disturbance capability of the GM model. The GA-PSO-GLSSVM model has high goodness-of-fit and accuracy compared with other prediction models. This model can successfully prevent the a series of undesirable consequences such as destabilization of the palm surface, missing strata and settlement due to ground surface due to pressure imbalance in the soil chamber pressure. The research results can provide reference for EPB shield tunneling parameter control in Grade V surrounding rock

Deformation Law and Spatial Effect of Deep Foundation Pits for Subway Construction in Soil-Rock Composite Strata in Seasonally Frozen Areas

The stability and safety of metro deep foundation pit in the soil-rock composite stratum in the seasonally frozen area are the key issues in the design and construction of the foundation pit. In order to ensure the soil-rock composite stratum in the seasonally frozen area, the deformation of the supporting structure is within the safe range when the deep foundation pit is excavated. At the same time, it will reduce the impact of the construction of metro deep foundation pit on the surrounding buildings. During the construction of foundation pit, close monitoring shall be carried out and the actual monitoring data shall be studied and analyzed. During the excavation of each layer of the foundation pit, monitor the displacement change of the foundation pit support structure and the settlement change of the surrounding ground surface, study the deformation law of the subway deep foundation pit in the soil-rock composite layer, and discuss the spatial effect of the foundation pit excavation in the seasonally frozen area. This paper mainly takes the deep foundation pit project of Anxin Road Station of Changchun Metro Line 5 as the research object, and analyzes the actual monitoring results. The results show that: (1) With the long side of the foundation pit, the deformation of the retaining structure of the foundation pit increases with the distance from the pit corner, and the middle of the long side of the foundation pit is less constrained by the retaining structure. (2) During the excavation of soil-rock composite foundation pit in seasonally frozen soil area, the pile displacement, axial force of support and uplift of support structure caused by rock excavation are relatively small, while the lateral displacement of foundation pit below the rock surface and thawing settlement deformation of soil are basically unchanged. The maximum lateral displacement of the foundation pit at the upper part of the rock surface moves upward. During the construction of deep foundation pit, there is a large displacement before the erection of the third layer of steel support. Attention should be paid to the soil properties of the deep silty clay layer, as well as to the rapid construction and synchronous maintenance

Prevalence of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms across the Declining Memory Continuum: An Observational Study in a Memory Clinic Setting

Aims: The study aimed to compare the frequency of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) across the declining memory continuum, from normal aging, subjective cognitive impairment (SCI), and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and to explore the clinical correlates of NPS. Method: In a memory clinic, 157 subjects (46 mild AD patients, 38 MCI individuals, 24 SCI subjects, and 49 normal controls) completed the neurobehavioral assessments with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). The clinical significance of each NPI domain was defined as an item score ≥4. Result: Clinically significant depression was more common in the SCI than in the normal control group (p Conclusion: Across the declining memory continuum, the frequency of NPS was highest among mild AD patients. Depression, apathy, and aberrant motor behavior deserve more attention. Presence of apathy might be an independent determinant for mild AD