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Abstract Based on China’s province-level panel data and industrial panel data of urban units from 1996 to 2012 and by controlling the factors of education, labor supply, economic opening-up, economic development, employment environment and time, the paper studied the effects of the relative minimum wage and absolute minimum wage to the gender difference of employment in urban units. The main results are as follows: There exists a self-correction mechanism in the influence of minimum wage to the gender differences and the current and lagged influence directions in all industries are inversely; The total influences of relative minimum wage are mainly positive but weakly, while the lagged effects of absolute minimum wage are mostly significant and the total influences are mainly negative; In the industries with higher wage industries or with lower ratio of female employees, the current influences of relative minimum wage are all negative and the lagged influences are mainly positive, while the current influences of absolute minimum wage are mainly negative and the lagged influences are mainly positive. In those industries with higher ratio of female employees, the lagged effects of absolute wage are mainly negative.
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Received: 07 March 2014
Published: 15 September 2014
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Corresponding Authors:
LIU Yucheng
E-mail: yuchengliu@whu.edu.cn
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