The Two-Tier Labor Market in Urban China: Occupational Segregation and Wage Differentials between Urban Residents and Rural Migrants in Shanghai

By Xin Meng, Junsen Zhang. 2001

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Reconciling the Returns to Education in Off-Farm Wage Employment in Rural China (2007, background): “…Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main St, Malden, MA, 02148, USA collected in the late 1980s and early 1990s rarely found returns exceeding 5% (e.g. Meng and Zhang, 2001).1 Studies of the rural economy have typically found even lower returns (e.g. Parish et al., 1995).”
• Land Tenure Arrangements and Rural-Urban Migration in China (2011, background): “For example, Meng and Zhang (2001) find significant evidence for occupational segregation, some of which may also be traced back to the hukou system (Lu & Song 2006).”
• Success or Failure: Selectivity and Reasons of Return Migration in Sichuan and Anhui, China (2006, background): “Despite hukou reforms, many cities continue to limit certain jobs to local residents and deny benefits to rural migrants (Cai, 2002, page 242; Meng and Zhang, 2001).”
• Migrants as Second-Class Workers in Urban China? A Decomposition Analysis (2009, methodology): “Our results corroborate Meng and Zhang (2001) findings of a small impact of occupational segregation on the earnings gap between migrants and urban workers in Shanghai, but they also highlight the possibility of a strong path dependence that reveals interesting patterns.”
• Urban growth dilemmas and solutions in China: Looking forward to 2030 (2016, background): “Many are migrants, because of their reduced circumstances caused by the often-large wages differences and occupational segmentation between citizens and migrants, being the object of discrimination in the labor market and position in the lower realms of society (Meng & Zhang, 2001).”
• Earnings Differentials and Ownership Structure in Chinese Enterprises (2005, background): “…on earnings gaps between different groups of workers, analyzing labor market segmentation between rural migrants and urban residents (Knight, Song, and Jia 1999; Meng and Zhang 2001; Maurer-Fazio and Dinh 2004) or discrimination against women (Gustafsson and Li 2000; Liu, Meng, and Zhang 2000).”