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State owned enterprises, hukou and wages in China

Crawford School of Public Policy

Event details

Seminar

Date & time

Monday 10 July 2017
12.00pm–1.00pm

Venue

Fred Gruen Economics Seminar Room, H W Arndt Building 25A, ANU

Speaker

Kailing Shen, Research School of Economics, ANU.

Contacts

Economic Theory Series Coordinator

About the speaker

Kailing Shen, Research School of Economics, ANU

This study empirically examines the differential impacts of State Owned Enterprises (SOE) vs private sectors on individual labor income using both firm level and worker level micro data. In particular, the wage outcomes of rural and urban hukou workers are allowed to be affected differently by these two sectors. The preliminary results indicate higher asset level of the private sector is correlated with higher wages for both local and migrant urban workers, while higher asset level of the SOE sector is only correlated with higher wages for local urban workers. To explain such empirical findings, a Roy model with limited and unilateral labor mobility between the SOE and private sector is proposed.

Light lunch available.

The Research School of Economics hosts four active seminar series in Applied Microeconomics, Economic Theory, Macroeconomics as well as a General series. Speakers include international and locally well-known economists.

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