Title :
Skill Premium and Wage Differences: The Case of China
Author_Institution :
Bus. Sch., JiangHan Univ., Wuhan, China
fDate :
Nov. 30 2009-Dec. 1 2009
Abstract :
The enlarging income differences in the past three decades in Chinese economy have attracted worldwide academic attention. This paper reviews the dynamics of theoretic research on skill premium and wage differences. Using a panel data of 1987-2006 in China, this paper explores the evolutions of skill premium. Finally, this paper comes up with some proposals on decreasing skill premium and wage differences.
Keywords :
macroeconomics; salaries; socio-economic effects; Chinese economy; income differences; skill premium; wage differences; Business; Cities and towns; Companies; Educational institutions; Fault detection; International collaboration; Knowledge acquisition; Remuneration; Stress; Supply and demand; skill premium; skill-biased technology change; wage differences;
Conference_Titel :
Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling, 2009. KAM '09. Second International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3888-4
DOI :
10.1109/KAM.2009.239
