Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China

ISBN-13: 9789813369030 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 180 str.

Xinxin Ma

Spis treści

Chapter1 Introduction

 

Part I Women’s Family Responsibilities and Labor Supply in China

Chapter2 Market Wages, Child Care, and Labor Supply of Married Women in China

Chapter3 Parent Care and Middle-aged Women’s Employment

 

Part II The Gender Gap in China s ’Labor Market and Society

Chapter4 Ownership Sectors and the Gender Wage Gap

Chapter5 The Gender Gap of Communist Party Membership

Chapter6 The Gender Gap of Social Participation Activity

 

Part III Impact of Policy on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in China

Chapter7 The Impact of Higher Education Expansion Policy on the Wages of Female College Graduates

Chapter8 The Impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme on the Labor Supply of Intra-Household Prime-age Women in Rural China

O autorze

Dr. Ma is a professor at Faculty of Economics,Hosei University. She was a council member of the Japanese Association for Chinese Economy and Management Studies (JACEMS) and was the editor of the Japanese Journal of Comparative Economics, Asian Studies, and the Journal of Chinese Economics. Her current research project focuses on economic transition and labor market segmentation in China, the gender gap of intrahousehold bargaining power and well-being, social security reform, and income inequality in China. Her articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as China Economic Review, Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies, Post-Communist Economies, Journal of Economics and Business, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, and the Journal of Happiness Studies. Her recent book is Economic Transition and Labor Market Reform in China (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan 2018).

Blurb

This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provides the reader with academic evidence for understanding the mechanism of female labor force participation, the determinants of the gender gap in the labor market, and the impact of policy transformation on women’s wages and employment in China from an economics perspective. The main content of this book includes three parts―women’s family responsibilities and women’s labor supply (child care, parent care, and women’s employment), the gender gap in the labor market and society (gender gaps in wages, Communist Party membership, and participation in social activity), and the impacts of policy transformation on women’s wages and employment (the social security system and the educational expansion policy on women’s wages and employment) in China. This book provides academic evidence about these issues based on economics theories and econometric analysis methods using many kinds of long-term Chinese national survey data. This book is highly recommended to readers who are interested in up-to-date and in-depth empirical studies of the gender gap and women’s employment in China during the economic transition period. This book is of interest to various groups such as readers who are interested in the Chinese economy, policymakers, and scholars with econometric analysis backgrounds.