%0 Journal Article %T Changes in gender wage differentials in China: a regression and decomposition based on the data of CHIPS1995¨C2013 %A Chou %A Li-Chen %A Hoinunnem Leivang %A Barbara %A Zhao %A Xian-Zhou %A Zhao %A Yu-Bing %J - %D 2019 %R 10.1080/1331677X.2019.1660906 %X Sa£¿etak Following the enactment of the Labour Law in 1995, China¡¯s urban labour market witnessed a divergence in both gender wage gap and discrimination against female workers before 2007, and thereafter a convergence in both. Contributions of endowment differentials between male and female workers to wage gap were diminishing because of the consistent improvement in the female workers¡¯ endowments. Discrimination against women, on the other hand, kept increasing and exceeded that of endowment differentials and eventually became the dominating contributor by 2002. Driven by the optimisation of female workers¡¯ endowments, the execution of new labour market legislation, the transformation of previously limitless labour supply into shortage, as well as the reform of income distribution policies, a long-term trend of convergence in both gender wage gap and discrimination has been forming. China has been striding forward into a society with more equity and justice ever since 2007 %K China %K economic transition %K wage differential %K gender discrimination %U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=333856