China had separate rural and urban labor markets for about 40 years until the late 1980's
when the restrictions on rural–urban migration were gradually eased. By the end of the …

This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their
occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative …

Labour Market Reform in China documents and analyses institutional changes in the
Chinese labour market over the last twenty-five years, and argues that further reform is …

This paper considers job satisfaction in the academic labour market drawing upon a
particularly detailed data set of 900 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities …

Occupational segregation is important and difficult to measure. Summary measures are
used to track change in the sexual division of labour across decades, but no single index …

Using data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), the first nationally
representative household survey in the Russian Federation, the author examines the gender …

We use the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia data from 2001 to 2006 to
analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public‐and private‐sector wage …

China's market-oriented labor market reform has been in place for about one and a half
decades. This study uses individual data for 1981 and 1987 to examine the success of the …

The measurement and analysis of earnings discrimination should take into account the
complete distribution of discrimination experienced. The paper criticizes the almost universal …

This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of
training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers …