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Informal employment and its effect on the income distribution in urban China / Xue, Jinjun; Gao, Wenshu ; Guo, Lin   Article
Xue, Jinjun Article
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Summary/Abstract This paper discusses the issue of informal employment and its effect on the income distribution in China using datasets from the China Urban Labour Surveys of 2005 and 2010. Based on a new definition of informal employment, we estimated the proportion of informal employment relative to total non-agricultural employment in urban China and found it to be 49.7% in 2005 and 40.3% in 2010. Meanwhile, our study illustrated that informal employees' earnings were 67% that of formal employees, and this large earnings gap raised the Gini coefficient to 0.42 in 2005. The Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition result shows that the earnings gap explains more than half of the overall personal income inequality in urban China. These results indicate that informal employment has a significant effect on the income distribution in urban China. Consequently, regulating the labour market, eliminating job discriminations and legislating the informal employment should be considered as alternative means of reducing inequality in China.
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Job satisfaction and relative income in economic transition: status or signal? the case of urban china / Gao, Wenshu; Smyth, Russell   Journal Article
Smyth, Russell Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
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