From: Impact of minimum wage on gender wage gaps in urban China
 | 1995 | 2002 | 2007 | ||||||
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 | Male | Female | F-M | Male | Female | F-M | Male | Female | F-M |
Monthly wage | 536 | 462 | 86.2% | 1045 | 852 | 81.5% | 1722 | 1271 | 73.8% |
Education | |||||||||
 Elementary school or less | 3.6% | 5.6% | 1.9% | 2.2% | 2.5% | 0.4% | 2.2% | 2.2% | 0.0% |
 Junior high school | 28.1% | 32.7% | 4.6% | 24.3% | 21.7% | −2.7% | 20.4% | 17.0% | −3.4% |
 Senior high school | 38.9% | 44.2% | 5.3% | 37.7% | 45.1% | 7.4% | 35.3% | 40.4% | 5.1% |
 College | 18.7% | 12.5% | −6.2% | 23.0% | 23.0% | 0.0% | 24.5% | 27.7% | 3.2% |
 University | 10.7% | 5.1% | −5.6% | 12.8% | 7.7% | −5.1% | 17.6% | 12.7% | −5.0% |
Years of experience | 28 | 27 | −2 | 30 | 27 | −3 | 31 | 28 | −3 |
Han | 95.4% | 95.3% | 0.0 | 96.0% | 95.9% | −0.1% | 97.4% | 96.9% | −0.5% |
Married | 87.1% | 87.9% | 0.8% | 89.1% | 86.6% | −2.5% | 88.4% | 86.4% | −2.0% |
Ownership | |||||||||
 SOE | 86.2% | 76.9% | −9.3% | 70.0% | 64.5% | −5.5% | 59.4% | 49.7% | −9.7% |
 COE | 12.0% | 20.7% | 8.7% | 5.5% | 9.0% | 3.5% | 5.1% | 7.0% | 1.9% |
 Foreign/Private Firm | 1.5% | 1.7% | 0.2% | 23.4% | 23.9% | 0.5% | 29.3% | 30.3% | 1.0% |
 Others | 0.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1.4% | 6.2% | 13.1% | 6.8% |
Occupation | |||||||||
 Manager | 17.3% | 6.3% | −11.0% | 19.8% | 9.3% | −10.5% | 6.7% | 2.8% | −4.0% |
 Engineer | 19.5% | 22.2% | 2.6% | 17.8% | 23.8% | 6.0% | 33.3% | 37.5% | 4.2% |
 Clerical staff | 22.5% | 23.4% | 0.9% | 20.4% | 22.8% | 2.4% | 20.5% | 19.1% | −1.4% |
 Manufacturingl worker | 37.7% | 41.4% | 3.7% | 32.6% | 23.1% | −9.4% | 23.9% | 11.7% | −12.2% |
 Others | 2.9% | 6.7% | 3.8% | 9.4% | 21.0% | 11.5% | 15.6% | 28.9% | 13.3% |
Industry | |||||||||
 Agriculture, forestry, fisheries | 2.1% | 1.3% | −0.8% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.7% | −0.3% |
 Manufacturing | 43.3% | 41.7% | −1.6% | 26.4% | 23.3% | −3.1% | 22.5% | 15.1% | −7.4% |
 Mining | 1.2% | 0.9% | −0.3% | 2.1% | 0.8% | −1.3% | 1.5% | 0.6% | −1.0% |
 Construction | 3.3% | 2.7% | −0.6% | 4.2% | 2.2% | −2.0% | 4.1% | 1.8% | −2.3% |
 Transportation/communication | 5.9% | 4.3% | −1.6% | 10.2% | 5.1% | −5.1% | 13.6% | 6.5% | −7.1% |
 Wholesale,retail and catering | 12.1% | 17.3% | 5.2% | 9.9% | 15.4% | 5.5% | 11.1% | 18.6% | 7.5% |
 Real estate | 3.3% | 4.0% | 0.7% | 6.0% | 4.4% | −1.6% | 7.7% | 5.3% | −2.4% |
 Health and Social Welfare | 3.6% | 5.8% | 2.3% | 4.0% | 6.7% | 2.7% | 3.2% | 5.6% | 2.4% |
 Education Arts and Culture | 6.4% | 8.0% | 1.6% | 8.4% | 9.8% | 1.3% | 8.4% | 10.8% | 2.4% |
 Technical Services | 2.7% | 2.1% | −0.6% | 9.3% | 15.6% | 6.4% | 2.6% | 1.6% | −1.0% |
 Financial Industry | 1.8% | 2.1% | 0.3% | 2.4% | 3.0% | 0.6% | 2.9% | 4.0% | 1.1% |
 Public administration and social organizations | 13.6% | 9.1% | −4.5% | 13.6% | 10.2% | −3.4% | 15.1% | 15.9% | 0.8% |
 Others | 0.7% | 0.5% | −0.1% | 2.1% | 2.2% | 0.1% | 6.4% | 13.5% | 7.1% |
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