Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis
Sylvie Démurger
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Marc Gurgand
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Résumé
In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long-term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path-dependence and statistical distribution of the estimated effects: (1) different allocation to sectors that pay different wages (sectoral effect); (2) hourly wage disparities across the two populations within sectors (wage effect); (3) different working times within sectors (working time effect); and (4) different population structures (population effect). Although sector allocation is extremely contrasted, with very few migrants in the public sector and very few urban residents working as self-employed, this has no clear impact on earnings differentials, because the sectoral effect is not robust to the path followed for the decomposition. The second main finding is that the population effect is robust and significantly more important than wage or working time effects. This implies that the main source of disparity between the two populations is pre-market (education opportunities) rather than on-market.
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Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis
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Résumé |
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In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long-term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path-dependence and statistical distribution of the estimated effects: (1) different allocation to sectors that pay different wages (sectoral effect); (2) hourly wage disparities across the two populations within sectors (wage effect); (3) different working times within sectors (working time effect); and (4) different population structures (population effect). Although sector allocation is extremely contrasted, with very few migrants in the public sector and very few urban residents working as self-employed, this has no clear impact on earnings differentials, because the sectoral effect is not robust to the path followed for the decomposition. The second main finding is that the population effect is robust and significantly more important than wage or working time effects. This implies that the main source of disparity between the two populations is pre-market (education opportunities) rather than on-market.
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Auteur(s) |
Sylvie Démurger
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, Marc Gurgand
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, Shi Li
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, Ximing Yue
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GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne -
Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne
( 102550 )
- 93, chemin des Mouilles 69130 Écully
6, rue Basse des Rives 42023 Saint-Étienne cedex 02
- France
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PJSE -
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 1312 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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LAGEP -
Laboratoire d'automatique et de génie des procédés
( 16266 )
- bât 308G ESCPE-Lyon, 2ème étage 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
- France
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Renmin University of China
( 56639 )
- Beijing 100872, China
- Chine
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Page/Identifiant |
pp. 610-628
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Date de publication |
2009
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Volume |
37
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Numéro |
4
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Mots-clés |
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chinese labor market, discrimination, earnings differentials, migration
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