期刊
FEMINIST ECONOMICS
卷 26, 期 4, 页码 114-148出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2020.1758337
关键词
Gender inequality; social norms; health capital; China
资金
- MOHE High-Impact Research Grant, Government of Malaysia [UMC/625/1/HIR/MOHE/ASH/03]
Since China's transition to a socialist market system, women's labor force participation has declined sharply. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2010, the authors re-examine China's gender gap in labor force participation with a focus on social norms. Probit model estimates of the gender gap in labor force participation probability confirm the contribution of conventional factors such as health and other human capital as important explanations for the resurgent gender gap in China. However, even after extensive controls for human-capital differences, the gap remains mostly unexplained in the data. The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis confirms that the gender gap in labor force participation is predominantly explained by behavioral differences between women and men. Gender-related community social norms account for 41.4 percent of the unexplained gap. The study results are robust to alternative measures of social norms and additional controls for community characteristics.
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