职业分割及其对性别工资差异的影响--基于2002年中国城镇调查队数据

Occupational Segregation and Its Effect on Estimates of the Gender Wage Differential:Evidence from 2002 UHS Data

文章采用2002年城调队的数据,分析表明城镇居民的性别工资差异约为31%。采用Brown分解方法,该方法考虑了职业分割对性别工资差异的影响。研究表明,性别工资差异不可解释的部分高达72%,其中职业内不可解释的部分占了绝大部分,经济学家通常将不可解释的部分归为歧视作用;剩余28%的差异是由自身特征差异引起的。这表明要有效缩小性别工资差异,不仅要采取措施提高妇女人力资本存量,而且还要采取一系列政策消除市场歧视,保障和提高妇女的就业地位。

Using 2002 urban household surveys （UHS） 31% more than their female counterparts. In this paper, we data, we find male employees are paid approximately use the wage decomposition proposed by Brown which takes into account occupational differences. We find the unexplained component accounts for approximately 72% of the overall gender wage differential and most of which within intra-occupational, people always relates this unexplained potion to discrimination, on the other hand, 28% is due to effects of difference in individual characteistics. This indicates in order to effectively reduce the gender wage difference, we should not only take action to imprave women＇ s human capital stock, but also adopt a series of policies to eliminate the discrimination on the market, secure the employment status of women.