Wage flexibility in the Chinese labour market, 1989–2009
研究中国从官僚工资决定转向市场体系过程中，双重劳动力市场的工资灵活性变化，发现工资对官方失业率反应减弱，而对市场失业率更敏感，且女性工资灵活性高于男性。
Wage flexibility in the Chinese labour market, 1989–2009. Regional Studies. China’s bureaucratic wage determination system is gradually being replaced by a market-based system, leading to a novel version of a dual labour market. This paper studies wage flexibility in this dual market. Its principal findings are as follows: wages in both sectors have become less responsive to changes in official registered unemployment, with an alternative market-based measure of unemployment becoming more relevant; there is evidence of convergence of flexibility between the two sectors; the wages of women exhibit greater flexibility than those of men; and there is evidence of differences in wage flexibility between workers who have urban residential rights and rural migrants.