Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality during China's Economic Transition
研究了中国经济改革和贸易自由化背景下，已婚女性就业和收入变化对城市家庭收入不平等的影响，发现1990年代末公共部门裁员导致女性就业率大幅下降，尤其是嫁给低收入丈夫的女性，这一变化是后重组时期城市收入不平等的主要驱动因素。
Abstract Economic reforms and trade liberalization have brought profound changes to the Chinese labor market. In this paper, we apply the technique of decomposing the coefficient of variation to examine the impact of changes in married women's employment and earnings on income inequality among Chinese urban households. Using the Chinese Household Income Surveys from 1988, 1995, and 2002, we explore the differences between two phases of economic transition: the gradualist reform period (1988–1995) and the radical reform period (1995–2002). Our analysis shows that the public-sector labor retrenchment of the late 1990s has led to a drastic decline in the employment rates of women, especially those married to low-earning husbands, and the change in women's employment was a major force driving income inequality in post-restructuring urban China.