Gender wage differentials among rural-urban migrants in China

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 779-793

  Magnani, Elisabetta ^a   Zhu, Rong ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gender wage gap; Quantile decomposition; Rural urban migrants

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; GENDER DISPARITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCTIVITY; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WAGE GAP;

CHINA;

EID: 84867233373     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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