劳动力流动与企业工资不平等：来自中国户籍改革的证据

IF 8.7 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Analysis and Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI:10.1016/j.eap.2025.07.042

Ni Qin , Junwei Zeng , Qiyao Wang

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摘要

本文研究了劳动力流动对企业工资不平等的因果影响。通过将2014年中国户籍改革作为外生冲击，我们发现劳动力流动与企业工资不平等呈正相关。我们的结果是稳健的一系列内生性和稳健性分析。推动我们研究结果的一个潜在机制是，户籍改革增加了城市的劳动力供给，从而降低了员工工资，尤其是普通员工的工资，并加剧了企业工资不平等。我们的研究结果在制度质量高、劳动力需求高的地区和劳动生产率高、企业社会责任低的地区更为显著。

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Labor mobility and corporate wage inequity: Evidence from the Hukou reform in China

This paper investigates the causal effect of labor mobility on corporate wage inequity. By using China’s Hukou reform in 2014 as an exogenous shock, we find that labor mobility is positively associated with corporate wage inequity. Our results are robust to a series of endogeneity and robustness analyses. One potential mechanism driving our results is that the Hukou reform has increased the labor supply in cities, thus reducing employee wage, especially for ordinary employees, and contributing to an increase in corporate wage inequity. Our results are more significant in regions with high institutional quality, or high labor demand and firms with high labor productivity, or low corporate social responsibility.

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Economic Analysis and Policy ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

9.80

自引率

9.20%

发文量

231

审稿时长

93 days

期刊介绍： Economic Analysis and Policy (established 1970) publishes articles from all branches of economics with a particular focus on research, theoretical and applied, which has strong policy relevance. The journal also publishes survey articles and empirical replications on key policy issues. Authors are expected to highlight the main insights in a non-technical introduction and in the conclusion.