abstract: 'This article analyzes a large sample of the 2005 population mini-census

  data and prefecture-level statistics of China to investigate gender

  earnings inequality in the context of economic marketization, paying

  special attention to the changing role of occupational segregation in

  the process. We approximate marketization by employment sectors and also

  construct an index of marketization at the prefecture level. Results

  show that, despite the tremendous economic growth, marketization has

  exacerbated gender earnings inequality in urban China''s labor markets.

  Gender earnings inequality is the smallest in government/public

  institutions, followed by public enterprises, and then private

  enterprises. The gender inequality also increases with the prefecture''s

  level of marketization. Multilevel analyses show that occupational

  segregation plays an important role in affecting gender earnings

  inequality: the greater the occupational segregation, the more

  disadvantaged women are relative to men in earnings in a prefecture''s

  labor market. Moreover, the impact of occupational segregation on gender

  earnings inequality increases with the prefectural level of

  marketization. These findings contribute to understanding the dynamics

  of gender earnings inequality and have important implications for policy

  to promote gender equality in urban China. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All

  rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Wu, XG (Corresponding Author), Hong Kong Univ Sci \& Technol, Ctr Appl
  Social \& Econ Res, Div Social Sci, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.

  He, Guangye, Nanjing Univ, Sch Social \& Behav Sci, Dept Sociol, 163 Xianlin Ave,
  Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China.

  He, Guangye; Wu, Xiaogang, Hong Kong Univ Sci \& Technol, Ctr Appl Social \& Econ
  Res, Div Social Sci, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.'
author: He, Guangye and Wu, Xiaogang
author-email: 'gloriah@connect.ust.hk

  sowu@ust.hk'
author_list:
- family: He
  given: Guangye
- family: Wu
  given: Xiaogang
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.12.001
eissn: 1096-0317
files: []
issn: 0049-089X
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
keywords: 'China; Gender; Earnings inequality; Marketization; Occupational

  segregation'
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION; MARKET TRANSITION; UNITED-STATES; INCOME

  INEQUALITY; ETHNIC STRATIFICATION; WAGE INEQUALITY; SEX SEGREGATION;

  WELFARE-STATE; JOB MOBILITY; WORK UNITS'
language: English
month: JUL
number-of-cited-references: '79'
orcid-numbers: Wu, Xiaogang/0000-0003-0294-629X
pages: 96-111
papis_id: 7ffcae2d7781f3070c7fb7cf4c23e718
ref: He2017marketizationoccupat
researcherid-numbers: Wu, Xiaogang/GRR-4820-2022
times-cited: '69'
title: Marketization, occupational segregation, and gender earnings inequality in
  urban China
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000404073700007
usage-count-last-180-days: '9'
usage-count-since-2013: '75'
volume: '65'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2017'