Wage Differential between Rural Migrant and Urban Workers in the People's Republic of China

IF 1 Q4 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Asian Development Review Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI:10.1162/adev_a_00140
Hong Cheng, Dezhuang Hu, Hongbin Li
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Using a recently constructed dataset that draws on the China Employer–Employee Survey, this paper provides new evidence on the earnings gap between rural migrant and urban manufacturing workers in the People's Republic of China. When we only control for province fixed effects, we find that rural migrant workers are paid 22.3% less per month and 32.2% less per hour than urban workers. We find that the gap in hourly earnings is larger than the gap in monthly earnings because rural migrant workers tend to work an average of 5.6% more hours per month than urban workers. Using these data, we also find that 87.4% of the monthly earnings gap and 73.9% of the hourly earnings gap can be attributed to differences in the individual characteristics and human capital levels of rural migrant and urban workers. Furthermore, we find that this unexplained earnings gap varies among different groups of workers. The earnings gap is much larger (i) for workers in state-owned enterprises than in nonstate-owned enterprises, (ii) for college-educated workers than workers with lower levels of educational attainment, and (iii) in Guangdong province than in Hubei province.
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中华人民共和国农民工与城镇工人的工资差距
本文利用最近构建的中国雇主-雇员调查数据集,为中国农民工与城市制造业工人之间的收入差距提供了新的证据。当我们只控制省份固定效应时,我们发现农民工的月收入和小时收入分别比城市工人低22.3%和32.2%。我们发现时薪差距大于月薪差距,因为农民工每月平均工作时间往往比城市工人多5.6%。利用这些数据,我们还发现87.4%的月收入差距和73.9%的小时收入差距可归因于农民工和城市工人的个人特征和人力资本水平的差异。此外,我们发现这种无法解释的收入差距在不同的工人群体中有所不同。(1)国有企业职工比非国有企业职工的收入差距大得多,(2)受过大学教育的职工比受教育程度较低的职工的收入差距大得多,(3)广东省比湖北省的收入差距大得多。
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Asian Development Review
Asian Development Review Social Sciences-Development
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期刊介绍: The Asian Development Review is a professional journal for disseminating the results of economic and development research carried out by staff and resource persons of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Review stresses policy and operational relevance of development issues rather than the technical aspects of economics and other social sciences. Articles are refereed and intended for readership among economists and social scientists in government, private sector, academia, and international organizations.
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