Abstract
This paper empirically examines the change of wage structure with the enterprise ownership reforms in urban China. It uses Chinese Urban Household Income Project Surveys in 1995 and 2002.The main results are as follows. First, age effect is the most remarkable in private owned enterprises and foreign owned enterprises than the other ownership enterprises in also 1995 and 2002. Second. human capital effects are the most remarkable in private owned enterprises and foreign owned enterprises than the other ownership enterprises in also 1995 and 2002. Third. human capital effects become more important with the progress of market reforms in all ownership enterprises. Forth. there are gender wage differentia is in all ownership enterprises and gender wage gaps spread substantially in private owned enterprises and foreign owned enterprises. Fifth, the wage rate increases if the worker receives more vocational training.
These results imply that the wage structures changed in the market economic reform period. The wage determination system changed from seniority-based wage structure to human capital factors (such as education years of school or tenures) -based wage structure. and the gender wage differentia spread with the progress of market reforms.
