Conditions Of Sex Discrimination On Chinese Labor Markets And Its Analysis

Sex discrimination in labor markets has become a more and more serious global problem, whether developed or developing countries. Its market consequences are not that the income of the discriminator would be increased, as many people believe, but that both the discriminator and the discriminated would suffer losses, but also lowered the whole social economic efficiency, has a negative effect on social justice, social stability and social economic development.Undoubtedly, sex discrimination existed in Chinese labor markets, even more seriously, but has always been a major concern in social science. Chinese economic circles studied sex discrimination by the mode of economics emerged in recent years, but the researches are very few. From the viewpoint of New Political Economics, based on the western labor market discriminative theory , through the analysis of sex discrimination status , it can reveal the analysis of causes on the sex discrimination in China, in the end puts forward the suggestion. As far as the choice of analytical tools, the paper makes use of statistics description, comparison analysis, estimation of multiple linear regression model, dissimilarity index, etc.The main body of the dissertation is as follows, which is divided into six chapters, the first chapter introduced the background about this topic. Present the significance and disadvantage of dissertation.Chapter II introduced the discrimination theories in western labor market. The western economic circles have been taking discrimination as one of the popular problems, from Gary S. Becke to Pelps, a lot of scholars made a thorough research, pushing to the development of the discrimination economics.Chapter III studied about the reality of the sex discrimination among the Chinese labor market. From the planned employment changes to the market employment, there are significant differences among the women and man in labor market. Chinese female peasants are disadvantaged compared to male in wage and position. The sex discrimination can adopt many styles in the Chinese labor market. It presents in the discrimination of supply and demand of female numbers in labor market,the sex discrimination of career instruction,gender differences in job expansion,the discrimination on sex revenue and training.Chapter IV traces back to the origins of sex discrimination in Chinese labor market. Based on Chapter III, a systematic and comprehensive analysis is made about the main causes accountable for the current recruitment discrimination from such perspectives as traditional culture, market,institution as well as law, in combination with reality in China.Chapter V Analysis the economic effects of sex discrimination on Chinese labor market. The wage preference coefficient and sex discrimination coefficient in crowded assumption model can prove occupational segregation and discrimination in Chinese labor market.Chapter VI Policies against sex discrimination.《Constitution of People Republic of China》,《Law of Women Right Protection of People Republic of China》,《Law of Labor》and a serious of interrelated laws and rules clearly confirm that women have the equal right on working with men. But both the objective recognition on women and law and the process enforcement have different degree question that right of women cannot get the corresponding protection. So based on the western policies against sex discrimination, same proposals are suggested in eliminating sex discrimination on Chinese labor market.