abstract: 'While many economists have advanced potential future growth strategies

  for the Chinese economy, none to our knowledge have done so with a

  specific consideration of the impacts these policies may have on women''s

  welfare measured in terms of labor market outcomes. In this article, we

  first discuss the relative status of women''s position in the Chinese

  labor force from the perspective of their employment levels,

  occupational segregation, and wages. We then calculate segregation

  indices and present and interpret recent employment data from the

  National Bureau of Statistics of China to consider how the labor market

  has evolved for women in the last decade. Interestingly, we find that

  occupational segregation by gender has in fact intensified since the

  onset of the radical reforms in China in the mid-1990s. Next, we

  contribute to the literature by evaluating potential growth policies for

  their impacts on women''s relative welfare in terms of labor market

  outcomes using our unique criteria for evaluation. We find that

  switching to a service-centered growth strategy could work to increase

  women''s relative welfare if implemented concurrently with additional

  policies aimed at reducing the otherwise potential negative implications

  for women''s relative welfare. Finally, we provide our own gender

  sensitive growth strategy suggestions which include our argument that an

  education-led growth strategy, for example, may have the largest

  positive impact on both the Chinese economy and women''s relative

  welfare.'
affiliation: 'Knight, T (Corresponding Author), Willamette Univ, Dept Econ, 900 State
  St, Salem, OR 97301 USA.

  Knight, Tabitha, Willamette Univ, Dept Econ, 900 State St, Salem, OR 97301 USA.'
author: Knight, Tabitha
author-email: knightt@willamette.edu
author_list:
- family: Knight
  given: Tabitha
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/10971475.2016.1159907
eissn: 1558-0954
files: []
issn: 1097-1475
journal: CHINESE ECONOMY
keywords: gender inequality; growth; labor markets
keywords-plus: 'RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; GENDER INEQUALITY; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; OCCUPATIONAL

  SEGREGATION; EARNINGS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; RACE'
language: English
number: 3, SI
number-of-cited-references: '46'
pages: 213-227
papis_id: 5c034e43ee7810b5d15afe7174bb6cf1
ref: Knight2016womenchinese
times-cited: '1'
title: 'Women and the Chinese Labor Market: Recent Patterns and Future Possibilities'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000390873800006
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usage-count-since-2013: '6'
volume: '49'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2016'