Gender Earnings Differences In China: Base Pay,Performance Pay, And Total Pay

We utilize a data set that has not been used in literature—the Life Histories and Social Change in Contemporary China (LHSCCC)—to provide new evidence on malefemale pay differences in China. The data set not only enables us to control for a wide range of pay-determining characteristics but also is the first to enable an analysis of the different components of pay (e.g., base pay and perform…