The regional distribution of skill premia in urban china
By: John Whalley, Chunbing Xing
Contributors: Xing, Chunbing; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16575; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16575.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "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.
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