Overview of the Foreign Research about Gender Wage Inequality

After reviewing the certain number of literature on gender wage inequality in post-reform China,the authors found that due to appropriate rewards of human capital characteristics,market liberation gives rise to a gender wage differential.Moreover,the gender wage gap is smaller in urban industries than that in rural ones.Gender wage discrimination that accounts for unexplained components is generally smaller than that of the earnings differential.Increased market competition does not seem to reduce gender wage inequality.However,the current literature is inconclusive,as it examines the gender wage inequality of only a tiny fraction of the country′s vast population and geography,large-scale empirical research,exploring effects of such reform on gender wage inequality is therefore urgently needed.