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This chapter provides evidence on whether the minimum wage has affected gender wage gaps in urban China. Several major conclusions emerge. First, from 1995 to 2007, the proportion of workers whose wages were below the regional minimum wage level was greater for female workers than for male workers. Second, the results obtained by using the difference-in-differences estimation method show that from a long-term perspective, the minimum wage will help to reduce gender wage differentials and that the effect is more obvious for the low-wage group. However, in the short term, the amelioration effect is not obvious.
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Li, S., Ma, X. (2020). Impacts of Minimum Wages on Gender Wage Gaps in Urban China. In: Li, S., Lin, C. (eds) Minimum Wages in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2421-9_5
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