Gender wage gap of migrant workers and its root causes: Gender discrimination or labor endowment?

IF 2.9 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI:10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101988

Lilian Li , Mingwang Cheng , Chunyan Chen

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Abstract

Curbing the widening of the gender wage gap is a critical goal for countries around the world. This paper empirically examines the determinants of employment and wage of migrant workers, and investigates the gender wage gap and its root causes. The study shows that the employment and wage of female migrants are significantly lower than that of male over the period 2015–2020. The modified Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition demonstrates that the gender wage gap among migrant workers stems mainly from discrimination effect rather than endowment effect, indicating the existence of employment discrimination against females in labor market. In addition, the gender wage gap among migrant workers has been widening with the increase of their wage. The modified quantile decomposition reveals that the gender wage gap at different wage levels is primarily due to the discrimination effect, which is higher in the high-paid group. This study contributes to the literature on gender wage gap by developing the revised decomposition approach to identify discrimination effect and endowment effect.

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农民工性别工资差距及其根源：性别歧视还是劳动力禀赋？

遏制男女工资差距的扩大是世界各国的一个重要目标。本文实证考察了农民工就业和工资的决定因素，探讨了性别工资差距及其根源。研究表明，2015-2020年期间，女性农民工的就业和工资水平明显低于男性。修正的Oaxaca-Blinder分解表明，农民工的性别工资差距主要源于歧视效应而非禀赋效应，说明劳动力市场中存在对女性的就业歧视。此外，随着农民工工资的增加，性别工资差距也在不断扩大。修正的分位数分解表明，不同工资水平的性别工资差距主要是由歧视效应造成的，在高收入群体中歧视效应更大。本研究通过发展修正分解方法来识别歧视效应和禀赋效应，为性别工资差距的研究贡献了文献。

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Journal of Asian Economics ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Asian Economics provides a forum for publication of increasingly growing research in Asian economic studies and a unique forum for continental Asian economic studies with focus on (i) special studies in adaptive innovation paradigms in Asian economic regimes, (ii) studies relative to unique dimensions of Asian economic development paradigm, as they are investigated by researchers, (iii) comparative studies of development paradigms in other developing continents, Latin America and Africa, (iv) the emerging new pattern of comparative advantages between Asian countries and the United States and North America.