Variable name | Definition | Descriptive statistics | ||
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Mean | Median | S.D. | ||
Rural region | 1 = if the target region is a rural region, 0 = otherwise | 0.092 | 0 | 0.289 |
Region unspecified | 1 = if the target region is unspecified, 0 = otherwise | 0.284 | 0 | 0.451 |
Public sector | 1 = if the sample is limited to workers of state-owned enterprises, 0 = otherwise | 0.016 | 0 | 0.127 |
Private sector | 1 = if the sample is limited to workers of privately owned enterprises, 0 = otherwise | 0.023 | 0 | 0.150 |
Average estimation year | Average estimation year | 2005.161 | 2006 | 7.008 |
Urban residents | 1 = if the sample is limited to workers who are urban residents, 0 = otherwise | 0.103 | 0 | 0.304 |
Migrants | 1 = if the sample is limited to workers who are migrants, 0 = otherwise | 0.192 | 0 | 0.394 |
Low-percentile group | 1 = if the observation is limited to the 30th percentile of the wage level or less, 0 = otherwise | 0.068 | 0 | 0.252 |
Middle-percentile group | 1 = if the observation is limited to the 30–75th percentile of the wage level, 0 = otherwise | 0.063 | 0 | 0.242 |
High-percentile group | 1 = if the observation is limited to the 75th percentile of the wage level or more, 0 = otherwise | 0.049 | 0 | 0.216 |
CHNS | 1 = if the survey results of China’s Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) are used as the data source, 0 = otherwise | 0.119 | 0 | 0.324 |
CGSS | 1 = if the survey results of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) are used as the data source, 0 = otherwise | 0.092 | 0 | 0.290 |
Other household survey | 1 = if the results of a household survey other than CHIP, CHNS, or CGSS are used as the data source, 0 = otherwise | 0.279 | 0 | 0.449 |
Enterprise survey | 1 = if the results of an enterprise survey are used as the data source, 0 = otherwise | 0.063 | 0 | 0.243 |
Panel survey | 1 = if the results of a panel survey are used as the data source, 0 = otherwise | 0.030 | 0 | 0.170 |
Regular wage | 1 = if regular wage is employed for empirical analysis, 0 = otherwise | 0.707 | 1 | 0.455 |
Monthly | 1 = if monthly wage is employed for empirical analysis, 0 = otherwise | 0.340 | 0 | 0.474 |
Daily | 1 = if daily wage is employed for empirical analysis, 0 = otherwise | 0.018 | 0 | 0.134 |
Hourly | 1 = if hourly wage is employed for empirical analysis, 0 = otherwise | 0.408 | 0 | 0.492 |
Logarithm value | 1 = if a logarithm value of wage is used as the dependent variable, 0 = otherwise | 0.865 | 1 | 0.342 |
OLS | 1 = if an OLS estimator is used for estimation, 0 = otherwise | 0.782 | 1 | 0.413 |
IV/2SLS/3SLS | 1 = if an IV, 2SLS, or 3SLS estimator is used for estimation, 0 = otherwise | 0.057 | 0 | 0.232 |
Control for selection bias | 1 = if the selection bias due to endogeneous labor participation is controlled for, 0 = otherwise | 0.069 | 0 | 0.254 |
Occupation | 1 = if the estimation simultaneously controls for occupation, 0 = otherwise | 0.307 | 0 | 0.461 |
Age/age group | 1 = if the estimation simultaneously controls for age or age group, 0 = otherwise | 0.247 | 0 | 0.431 |
Work experience/tenure | 1 = if the estimation simultaneously controls for work experience and/or tenure, 0 = otherwise | 0.715 | 1 | 0.451 |
Health condition | 1 = if the estimation simultaneously controls for the health condition of workers, 0 = otherwise | 0.126 | 0 | 0.332 |
Firm size | 1 = if the estimation simultaneously controls for the size of firms to which workers belong, 0 = otherwise | 0.096 | 0 | 0.295 |
Trade union | 1 = if the estimation simultaneously controls for trade unions, 0 = otherwise | 0.044 | 0 | 0.206 |
Location fixed effects | 1 = if the estimation simultaneously controls for location fixed effects, 0 = otherwise | 0.513 | 1 | 0.500 |
Industry fixed effects | 1 = if the estimation simultaneously controls for industry fixed effects, 0 = otherwise | 0.439 | 0 | 0.496 |
With an interaction term(s) | 1 = if the estimation is conducted with an interaction term(s), 0 = otherwise | 0.011 | 0 | 0.104 |
S.E. | Standard error of patial correlation coefficient | 0.024 | 0.019 | 0.020 |