Economic transformation and the gender earnings gap in urban China

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 305-329

  Gustafsson, Björn ^a   Li, Shi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Earnings; Gender gap; Urban China

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034358474     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001480050140     Document Type: Article

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