Impacts of a Gender Ratio Change on China’s Wage Income Distributions

• DOI: 10.1080/1540496x.2021.1956899
• Publication Date: 2021-08-02T19:33:01Z
• Authors: Zhi-fang Su; Yi-zheng Fu; Mei-Yuan Chen
• Keywords: Quantile; Kurtosis

This study examines the possible effects of a gender ratio change on China’s wage income distributions with unconditional quantile estimation. Using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey for 1989–2011, before after in are studied graphically. The estimated density functions confirmed to be skewed right leptokurtic. An increase increases mitigate inequality. We conclude that, other things being equal, decreasing trend will enhance