10.5281/zenodo.1123546
Qiong Huang
Satish Chand
Industry Openness, Human Capital And Wage Inequality: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Firms
Zenodo
2016
Openness
human capital
wage inequality
decomposition; China.
2016-02-06
en
Journal article
https://zenodo.org/record/1123546
10.5281/zenodo.1123545
10004057
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Open Access
This paper uses a primary data from 670 Chinese<br>
manufacturing firms, together with the newly introduced regressionbased<br>
inequality decomposition method, to study the effect of<br>
openness on wage inequality. We find that openness leads to a<br>
positive industry wage premium, but its contribution to firm-level<br>
wage inequality is relatively small, only 4.69%. The major<br>
contributor to wage inequality is human capital, which could explain<br>
14.3% of wage inequality across sample firms.<br>
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