Economic Transition and Labor Market Reform in China

Xinxin Ma is Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative and World Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Economic Transition and Changes of Wage Structure.- 3. Determinants of Wage Gaps between Public Sector and Private Sector.- 4. Monopolistic Industry Sector and its Influence on Wage Gaps between Migrants and Local Urban Residents.- 5. Labour Market Segmentation by Public-Private Sectors and its Influence on Gender Wage Gap.- 6. The Determinants of Labour Supply of Informal Sector: Two Hypotheses on Self-employment.- 7. Impact of Minimum Wage Policy on Wage Distribution and Wage Gap between Rural and Urban Residents.- 8. Impact of China’s Higher Education Expansion Policy on Youth Employment.- 9. Impact of New Rural Pension Scheme on Labor Participation.- 10. Impact of Payroll Taxes on Wages.