Book/Printed Material The regional distribution of skill premia in urban china

Title

• The regional distribution of skill premia in urban china

Summary

• "We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in recent years. This has previously been little noted or discussed. We use three urban household surveys for 1995, 2002, and 2007 and estimate skill premia at provincial and city levels. Results show an increase in the skill premium across all regions between 1995 and 2002, but only coastal regions show significant increases in skill premia between 2002 and 2007. For 2007, coastal regions also have much higher within region wage inequality and this contributes more to overall urban wage inequality than within region inequality of non-coastal regions. Using a fixed effects model at city level, we find that ownership restructuring is a significant factor in driving up skill premia during the first period, and that the ongoing process of China's integration into the global economy plays a significant and regionally concentrated role in the second period"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Names

• Whalley, John
• Xing, Chunbing
• National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

• Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2010.

Notes

• -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 3/29/2011.
• -  Includes bibliographical references.
• -  Also available in print.
• -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Call Number/Physical Location

• HB1

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2011655810
• http://www.nber.org/papers/w16575 External

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2011655810

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2011655810

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