City Size and Wage Disparity in Segmented Labour Market in China

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• 作者：Liqun Pan ; Pundarik Mukhopadhaya and Jing Li
• 刊名：Australian Economic Papers
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：55
• 期：2
• 页码：128-148
• 全文大小：579K
• ISSN：1467-8454

文摘

The relation between city size and wage inequality is well established for Western countries. This paper finds that city size–wage premium exists across Chinese cities to a lower extent than the Western world. Further, using a simplified model on the Chinese Household Income Project survey data, we find that the city size–wage premium varies with difference in skills among urban citizens. The variation amounts to 50% more for the high-skill workers compared with their low-skill counterparts. Moreover, owing to the presence of segmented labour market, the patterns of city size–wage premium and city size–wage inequality premium are notably different for the migrants, who receive a much lesser wage than the citizens and do not experience wage variation owing to their skill heterogeneity.