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This paper empirically examines married women’s labor supply in urban China. It uses data from the 1995 and 2002 Chinese Urban Household Income Project Surveys. The main results are as follows. First, married women’s labor supply is mainly affected by their market wage rates. Second, married women’s labor supply is not affected by their husbands’ income. Third, married women’s labor supply increases if they are members of the Communist Party. These results imply that although the progress of market reforms makes market factors such as wage rates more important, political factors still have a significant effect on married women’s labor supply in urban China.
