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Minimum wage regulation in china and its applications to migran / Du, Yang; Pan, Weiguang

Du, Yang	Journal Article
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2009.

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Using data at micro and city levels, the present paper explores the policy evolution of the minimum wage system in China, and examines its coverage for migrant workers. The analysis indicates that minimum wage policy has been substantially improved in terms of both coverage and the level of the minimum wage standard, but that the current policy tool that relies on the monthly wage rate is not effective. Because migrant workers tend to work more hours, use of an hourly wage rate is more appropriate than a monthly wage rate.

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China ; Migrant Workers ; Minimum Wage ; Urban Labor Market ; Labor Law

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Unemployment and labor force participation in urban China / Liu, Qian

Liu, Qian	Journal Article
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2012.

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This paper serves to document and analyze the employment and the labor market changes in urban China since the late 1980s. High and sustained GDP growth rates in China have paradoxically been accompanied by increasing unemployment rates and decreasing labor force participation rates. Using national representative micro data, estimations from logit models show that age, education, communist-party membership and marital status are significantly associated with participation in the labor force and employment opportunities, and the impacts of education and party membership have increased over time. An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition finds little of the observed male-female differentials attributable to differences in characteristics such as age or education but to coefficient effects, a possible reflection of discrimination.

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China ; Unemployment ; Employment ; Urban Labor Market ; Labor Force

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