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100			_aYueh, Linda Y.
245			_aWage reforms in China during the 1990s /
300			_ap.149
490			_aVol. 18 No. 2 June 2004
520			_aIn urban areas of China, economic reforms were intensely implemented after 1984. We focus on two primary aspects of the reforms in the 1990s, those pertaining to the labor market and to wages. Based on original interviews and two unique household data sets, we investigate the effects of the reforms. Our first finding is that the components of annual income have changed, reflecting fewer subsidies and more diverse sources of income (such as self-employment), over the period from 1995 to 1999. By 1999, the wage structure reflects less seniority-based pay, allows for more discretion in rewarding non-productive characteristics (gender and Communist Party membership, for example) and also permits more productivity-related pay (as evidenced by increased returns to human capital).
650			_aWage reforms-China
773			_w1351-3958 _tAsian Economic Journal
856			_uhttp://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8381
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