Segmented local labor markets in postreform China: Gender earnings inequality in the case of two towns in Zhejiang province

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-109

  Xu, Wei ^a   Tan, Kok Chiang ^b   Wang, Guixin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; LABOR MARKET; URBAN ECONOMY; WAGE GAP;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 33144473215     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a37295     Document Type: Article

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