An Analysis of Wage Gap Between Chinese State-owned Enterprises and Non-state-owned Enterprises

摘要

This paper, by using CHIP2013 urban household survey data, studies wage gap between Chinese state-owned enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises. So this study uses the descriptive statistics and OLS regression, considering enterprise characteristics (such as ownership structure and region), personal characteristics (such as education years, tenure, gender, party member status, health and employment form) and industry characteristics (such as industry and industry monopoly situation) factors, to compare the differences of influence in Chinese state-owned enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises. The results show that the state-owned enterprise salary actually is higher than the non-state-owned enterprises; Above factors on the influence of the state-owned enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises employee wages is different; The wage gap between the industry, especially the wage gap between monopoly and competition industry is very big. Combined with the enterprise ownership, the state-owned enterprise's wage in the monopoly industries is much higher than non-state-owned enterprise's wage in competition industry. In the future, the reform of state-owned enterprise salary system should be pay more attention to strengthen the management and supervision of state-owned enterprises in monopoly industries.