Xiao‐yuan Dong
Biographic Data
| ID | 1398534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiao‐yuan Dong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiao‐yuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dong |
| SIGNATURE | DONG X Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winnipeg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1267-6596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 329 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Care Economy in Post-Reform China: Feminist Research on Unpaid and Paid Work and Well-Being
As China embarked on the path of economic and social reforms, social provisions from the Maoist era were dismantled, and care responsibilities shifted back from the state to the household. Rural–urban migration, a steep decline in fertility, and increasing longevity have led to changes in the age structure of the population both overall and by region. Using seven different surveys, the eleven contributions in this volume study the distributive co…
Paid Maternity Leave and Breastfeeding in Urban China
Using data from the 2010 Survey on Chinese Women's Social Status, this contribution estimates the effect of paid maternity leave on breastfeeding duration in urban China during the 1988–2008 period. The analysis applies a policy-based identification strategy to control for the endogenous relationship between paid leave entitlements and breastfeeding decisions. Estimates show that paid maternity leave has a strong positive effect on breastfeeding …
Gender, Low-Paid Status, and Time Poverty in Urban China
Using synthetic data from the 2008 China Time Use Survey (CTUS) and the 2008 China Household Income Project (CHIP), this study estimates time-poverty rates and compares the profiles of time-poor men and women workers in urban China. In line with previous research, time poverty is defined as a lack of enough time for rest and leisure. Three time-poverty measures are adopted. By all three measures, women paid workers and low-paid workers account fo…
Childcare, Household Composition, Muslim Ethnicity, and Off-Farm Work in Rural China
This study explores how religious and ethnic norms and gender relations interact across the domestic and public spheres of work in rural China's minority-concentrated regions. It focuses on the roles that childcare and household composition play in the employment decisions of prime-age married individuals of Muslim and non-Muslim ethnicity. Using the 2012 China Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES), the study finds that children generally decrease wo…
Gender, Work Burden, and Mental Health in Post-Reform China
This study investigates how total work burden, including paid work and unpaid care work, affects the mental health of prime-age, employed women and men in urban China. Based on the 2010 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), regression results indicate that total work burden is negatively related to the mental health of both men and women, consistent with the idea that additional work hours reduce time available for rest and leisure. Women have longe…
Childcare Costs and Migrant and Local Mothers' Labor Force Participation in Urban China
This study empirically analyzes the impact of childcare costs on the labor force participation (LFP) and childcare utilization of migrant and local mothers of preschool-age children in urban China, using data from the 2010 National Dynamic Monitoring Survey of Floating Populations. The estimates show that childcare costs have a strong negative effect on the LFP and childcare utilization of migrant and local mothers. Compared to local mothers, the…
Domestic Violence and Women’s Land Rights in Rural China: Findings from a National Survey in 2010
In recent decades, China undertook a series of agricultural land tenure reforms to increase the security of land use rights for rural households. While these reforms boosted agricultural production, they also increased landlessness among women due to patrilocal and patrilineal customs. Utilising data from China’s Women Social Status Survey conducted in 2010, this paper examines the impact of women’s land rights on the incidence of domestic violen…
Relative Pay of Domestic Eldercare Workers in Shanghai, China
Domestic services represent a growing sector of the economy in many high- and upper-middle income countries. Demand for domestic workers for eldercare is especially high as a result of the rapid aging of the population in these countries. However, domestic eldercare employment is characterized as a low-pay, low-status occupation worldwide. This article examines the relative pay of domestic eldercare workers in urban China and its underlying deter…
Unpaid Care Work's Interference with Paid Work and the Gender Earnings Gap in China
This paper examines the effects of unpaid care work on the earnings of men and women in China by using data from the 2008 China Time Use Survey, the country's first, large-scale time-use survey. The study introduces three indicators to measure the degree to which unpaid care work may “interfere” with paid work, either by directly disrupting it or by being intertwined with it. The regression estimates show that while the amount of time spent on un…
Women's Employment and Child Care Choices in Urban China during the Economic Transition
China’s transition from a centrally planned to a market economy has substantially eroded governmental support for child care, raising the concern about how the change of child care provision may affect women’s labor market participation. This article examines the impact of child care availability and affordability on the employment and child care choices of urban Chinese women with preschool children during the transition. The analysis shows that…
The Feminization of Labor and the Time-Use Gender Gap in Rural China
This contribution investigates the impact of economic development on the feminization of labor in rural China between 1991 and 2006. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS; 1991–2006), this study estimates time use in three sectors (farm, off-farm, and domestic) and analyzes the contribution of four features of economic development to changes in time use. Women's share of paid and unpaid work has increased in both the farm an…
Labor Migration and Time Use Patterns of the Left-behind Children and Elderly in Rural China
Harsh Choices: Chinese Women's Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform
China's economic reforms over the past three decades have dramatically changed the mechanisms for allocating goods and labour in both market and non-market spheres. This article examines the social and economic trends that intensify the pressure on the care economy, and on women in particular in playing their dual roles as care givers and income earners in post-reform China. The analysis sheds light on three critical but neglected issues. How doe…
P arental C are and M arried W omen ' s L abor S upply in U rban C hina
The aging of the population and the dramatic increase in women's labor force participation have made eldercare and women's labor market outcomes a subject of considerable policy importance not just in industrialized countries but also in transition and developing countries. This study examines the impact of parental care on married women's labor supply in urban China using the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the period 1993–2006. The estima…
Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality during China's Economic Transition
Economic reforms and trade liberalization have brought profound changes to the Chinese labor market. In this paper, we apply the technique of decomposing the coefficient of variation to examine the impact of changes in married women's employment and earnings on income inequality among Chinese urban households. Using the Chinese Household Income Surveys from 1988, 1995, and 2002, we explore the differences between two phases of economic transition…
Economic transition and gender differentials in wages and productivity: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises
China's Transition and Feminist Economics
Since 1978 China has been undergoing transition from a socialist to a capitalist economy and the opening up to international trade and investment. This process has been accelerated by WTO membership. This article presents an overview of the gendered processes and outcomes associated with China's reforms, mainly focusing on the post-1992 period when the pace of reforms accelerated. The imperative for accumulation and efficiency has resulted not on…
Women's market work and household status in rural China: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong in the late 1990s
This paper addresses the question, “does market work improve women's household status in rural China?” using survey data of men and women working in Township and Village Enterprises in rural Jiangsu and Shandong. This paper measures household status by domestic labor time, responsibility for domestic tasks, and household decision-making control. It finds that women have lower household status than men, using these three indicators. Based upon reg…
Introduction / the Status of Women Economists in Us Universities and the World / the Status of Women Economists in Uk Universities / the Status of Women Economists in Canadian Universities / the Statu…
These Explorations, by eight authors from Canada, China, the US, and the UK, examine the current status of women in economics (with an eye mainly toward their status in the academic branch of the profession). The four sections of the work analyze results of surveys that show the distribution of academic positions among women economists in universities in Canada, the UK, the US, and China. The work also provides a short history of the development …
Gender Segmentation at Work in China's Privatized Rural Industry: Some Evidence from Shandong and Jiangsu
Public investment, social services and productivity of Chinese household farms
This article examines the impact of village‐sponsored infrastructural investment and social services on the productivity of Chinese farm households, using detailed farm‐level data for the period 1986–90. The main findings are that the public facilities and services provided by village collectives augmented productivity growth of farm households, and that the expenditures on public good activities in the sample villages were below the optimal leve…
China’s State-Owned Enterprises: Their Role, Job Creation, and Efficiency in Long-Term Perspective
The Contribution of Collective Landownership to China’s Economic Transition and Rural Industrialization: A Resource Allocation Model
Globalization and Industrial Labour in China: A Critical Review
This paper reviews existing studies on the impact of globalization on industrial labour in China. It is shown that debates within the literature arise because of (a) different methodological choices, (b) different ways of measuring globalization and (c) different ways of measuring impacts on labour. This is illustrated by examining the ways in which three prominent theoretical fi-ameworks (associated with the World Bank, the ILO and Marxian appro…
Two-tier land tenure system and sustained economic growth in post-1978 rural China
China's grain imports: An empirical study
Labor Migration and Time Use Patterns of the Left-behind Children and Elderly in Rural China
Harsh Choices: Chinese Women's Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform
China's economic reforms over the past three decades have dramatically changed the mechanisms for allocating goods and labour in both market and non-market spheres. This article examines the social and economic trends that intensify the pressure on the care economy, and on women in particular in playing their dual roles as care givers and income earners in post-reform China. The analysis sheds light on three critical but neglected issues. How doe…
Two-tier land tenure system and sustained economic growth in post-1978 rural China
P arental C are and M arried W omen ' s L abor S upply in U rban C hina
The aging of the population and the dramatic increase in women's labor force participation have made eldercare and women's labor market outcomes a subject of considerable policy importance not just in industrialized countries but also in transition and developing countries. This study examines the impact of parental care on married women's labor supply in urban China using the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the period 1993–2006. The estima…
Unpaid Care Work's Interference with Paid Work and the Gender Earnings Gap in China
This paper examines the effects of unpaid care work on the earnings of men and women in China by using data from the 2008 China Time Use Survey, the country's first, large-scale time-use survey. The study introduces three indicators to measure the degree to which unpaid care work may “interfere” with paid work, either by directly disrupting it or by being intertwined with it. The regression estimates show that while the amount of time spent on un…
Women's Employment and Child Care Choices in Urban China during the Economic Transition
China’s transition from a centrally planned to a market economy has substantially eroded governmental support for child care, raising the concern about how the change of child care provision may affect women’s labor market participation. This article examines the impact of child care availability and affordability on the employment and child care choices of urban Chinese women with preschool children during the transition. The analysis shows that…
Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality during China's Economic Transition
Economic reforms and trade liberalization have brought profound changes to the Chinese labor market. In this paper, we apply the technique of decomposing the coefficient of variation to examine the impact of changes in married women's employment and earnings on income inequality among Chinese urban households. Using the Chinese Household Income Surveys from 1988, 1995, and 2002, we explore the differences between two phases of economic transition…
The Care Economy in Post-Reform China: Feminist Research on Unpaid and Paid Work and Well-Being
As China embarked on the path of economic and social reforms, social provisions from the Maoist era were dismantled, and care responsibilities shifted back from the state to the household. Rural–urban migration, a steep decline in fertility, and increasing longevity have led to changes in the age structure of the population both overall and by region. Using seven different surveys, the eleven contributions in this volume study the distributive co…
Gender, Low-Paid Status, and Time Poverty in Urban China
Using synthetic data from the 2008 China Time Use Survey (CTUS) and the 2008 China Household Income Project (CHIP), this study estimates time-poverty rates and compares the profiles of time-poor men and women workers in urban China. In line with previous research, time poverty is defined as a lack of enough time for rest and leisure. Three time-poverty measures are adopted. By all three measures, women paid workers and low-paid workers account fo…
Economic transition and gender differentials in wages and productivity: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises
The Feminization of Labor and the Time-Use Gender Gap in Rural China
This contribution investigates the impact of economic development on the feminization of labor in rural China between 1991 and 2006. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS; 1991–2006), this study estimates time use in three sectors (farm, off-farm, and domestic) and analyzes the contribution of four features of economic development to changes in time use. Women's share of paid and unpaid work has increased in both the farm an…
Women's market work and household status in rural China: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong in the late 1990s
This paper addresses the question, “does market work improve women's household status in rural China?” using survey data of men and women working in Township and Village Enterprises in rural Jiangsu and Shandong. This paper measures household status by domestic labor time, responsibility for domestic tasks, and household decision-making control. It finds that women have lower household status than men, using these three indicators. Based upon reg…
Gender Segmentation at Work in China's Privatized Rural Industry: Some Evidence from Shandong and Jiangsu
China's Transition and Feminist Economics
Since 1978 China has been undergoing transition from a socialist to a capitalist economy and the opening up to international trade and investment. This process has been accelerated by WTO membership. This article presents an overview of the gendered processes and outcomes associated with China's reforms, mainly focusing on the post-1992 period when the pace of reforms accelerated. The imperative for accumulation and efficiency has resulted not on…
Childcare Costs and Migrant and Local Mothers' Labor Force Participation in Urban China
This study empirically analyzes the impact of childcare costs on the labor force participation (LFP) and childcare utilization of migrant and local mothers of preschool-age children in urban China, using data from the 2010 National Dynamic Monitoring Survey of Floating Populations. The estimates show that childcare costs have a strong negative effect on the LFP and childcare utilization of migrant and local mothers. Compared to local mothers, the…
China’s State-Owned Enterprises: Their Role, Job Creation, and Efficiency in Long-Term Perspective
The Contribution of Collective Landownership to China’s Economic Transition and Rural Industrialization: A Resource Allocation Model
Gender, Work Burden, and Mental Health in Post-Reform China
This study investigates how total work burden, including paid work and unpaid care work, affects the mental health of prime-age, employed women and men in urban China. Based on the 2010 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), regression results indicate that total work burden is negatively related to the mental health of both men and women, consistent with the idea that additional work hours reduce time available for rest and leisure. Women have longe…
Monitoring Costs in Chinese Agricultural Teams
Large productivity gains have been observed in Chinese agriculture following the transition from collective farming to household contracting. Using a model of mutual monitoring in an egalitarian production team, the authors estimate that labor supervision absorbed about 10-20 percent of total labor time for a sample of Chinese agricultural teams during 1970-76. These agency costs are lower than comparable estimates derived from aggregate data. Co…
Paid Maternity Leave and Breastfeeding in Urban China
Using data from the 2010 Survey on Chinese Women's Social Status, this contribution estimates the effect of paid maternity leave on breastfeeding duration in urban China during the 1988–2008 period. The analysis applies a policy-based identification strategy to control for the endogenous relationship between paid leave entitlements and breastfeeding decisions. Estimates show that paid maternity leave has a strong positive effect on breastfeeding …
Childcare, Household Composition, Muslim Ethnicity, and Off-Farm Work in Rural China
This study explores how religious and ethnic norms and gender relations interact across the domestic and public spheres of work in rural China's minority-concentrated regions. It focuses on the roles that childcare and household composition play in the employment decisions of prime-age married individuals of Muslim and non-Muslim ethnicity. Using the 2012 China Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES), the study finds that children generally decrease wo…
Relative Pay of Domestic Eldercare Workers in Shanghai, China
Domestic services represent a growing sector of the economy in many high- and upper-middle income countries. Demand for domestic workers for eldercare is especially high as a result of the rapid aging of the population in these countries. However, domestic eldercare employment is characterized as a low-pay, low-status occupation worldwide. This article examines the relative pay of domestic eldercare workers in urban China and its underlying deter…
China's grain imports: An empirical study
Introduction / the Status of Women Economists in Us Universities and the World / the Status of Women Economists in Uk Universities / the Status of Women Economists in Canadian Universities / the Statu…
These Explorations, by eight authors from Canada, China, the US, and the UK, examine the current status of women in economics (with an eye mainly toward their status in the academic branch of the profession). The four sections of the work analyze results of surveys that show the distribution of academic positions among women economists in universities in Canada, the UK, the US, and China. The work also provides a short history of the development …
Monitoring Costs in Chinese Agricultural Teams
Large productivity gains have been observed in Chinese agriculture following the transition from collective farming to household contracting. Using a model of mutual monitoring in an egalitarian production team, the authors estimate that labor supervision absorbed about 10-20 percent of total labor time for a sample of Chinese agricultural teams during 1970-76. These agency costs are lower than comparable estimates derived from aggregate data. Co…
China's grain imports: An empirical study
Two-tier land tenure system and sustained economic growth in post-1978 rural China
Globalization and Industrial Labour in China: A Critical Review
This paper reviews existing studies on the impact of globalization on industrial labour in China. It is shown that debates within the literature arise because of (a) different methodological choices, (b) different ways of measuring globalization and (c) different ways of measuring impacts on labour. This is illustrated by examining the ways in which three prominent theoretical fi-ameworks (associated with the World Bank, the ILO and Marxian appro…
Public investment, social services and productivity of Chinese household farms
This article examines the impact of village‐sponsored infrastructural investment and social services on the productivity of Chinese farm households, using detailed farm‐level data for the period 1986–90. The main findings are that the public facilities and services provided by village collectives augmented productivity growth of farm households, and that the expenditures on public good activities in the sample villages were below the optimal leve…
China’s State-Owned Enterprises: Their Role, Job Creation, and Efficiency in Long-Term Perspective
The Contribution of Collective Landownership to China’s Economic Transition and Rural Industrialization: A Resource Allocation Model
Gender Segmentation at Work in China's Privatized Rural Industry: Some Evidence from Shandong and Jiangsu
Introduction / the Status of Women Economists in Us Universities and the World / the Status of Women Economists in Uk Universities / the Status of Women Economists in Canadian Universities / the Statu…
These Explorations, by eight authors from Canada, China, the US, and the UK, examine the current status of women in economics (with an eye mainly toward their status in the academic branch of the profession). The four sections of the work analyze results of surveys that show the distribution of academic positions among women economists in universities in Canada, the UK, the US, and China. The work also provides a short history of the development …
China's Transition and Feminist Economics
Since 1978 China has been undergoing transition from a socialist to a capitalist economy and the opening up to international trade and investment. This process has been accelerated by WTO membership. This article presents an overview of the gendered processes and outcomes associated with China's reforms, mainly focusing on the post-1992 period when the pace of reforms accelerated. The imperative for accumulation and efficiency has resulted not on…
Women's market work and household status in rural China: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong in the late 1990s
This paper addresses the question, “does market work improve women's household status in rural China?” using survey data of men and women working in Township and Village Enterprises in rural Jiangsu and Shandong. This paper measures household status by domestic labor time, responsibility for domestic tasks, and household decision-making control. It finds that women have lower household status than men, using these three indicators. Based upon reg…
Economic transition and gender differentials in wages and productivity: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises
Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality during China's Economic Transition
Economic reforms and trade liberalization have brought profound changes to the Chinese labor market. In this paper, we apply the technique of decomposing the coefficient of variation to examine the impact of changes in married women's employment and earnings on income inequality among Chinese urban households. Using the Chinese Household Income Surveys from 1988, 1995, and 2002, we explore the differences between two phases of economic transition…
P arental C are and M arried W omen ' s L abor S upply in U rban C hina
The aging of the population and the dramatic increase in women's labor force participation have made eldercare and women's labor market outcomes a subject of considerable policy importance not just in industrialized countries but also in transition and developing countries. This study examines the impact of parental care on married women's labor supply in urban China using the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the period 1993–2006. The estima…
The Feminization of Labor and the Time-Use Gender Gap in Rural China
This contribution investigates the impact of economic development on the feminization of labor in rural China between 1991 and 2006. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS; 1991–2006), this study estimates time use in three sectors (farm, off-farm, and domestic) and analyzes the contribution of four features of economic development to changes in time use. Women's share of paid and unpaid work has increased in both the farm an…
Labor Migration and Time Use Patterns of the Left-behind Children and Elderly in Rural China
Harsh Choices: Chinese Women's Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform
China's economic reforms over the past three decades have dramatically changed the mechanisms for allocating goods and labour in both market and non-market spheres. This article examines the social and economic trends that intensify the pressure on the care economy, and on women in particular in playing their dual roles as care givers and income earners in post-reform China. The analysis sheds light on three critical but neglected issues. How doe…
Women's Employment and Child Care Choices in Urban China during the Economic Transition
China’s transition from a centrally planned to a market economy has substantially eroded governmental support for child care, raising the concern about how the change of child care provision may affect women’s labor market participation. This article examines the impact of child care availability and affordability on the employment and child care choices of urban Chinese women with preschool children during the transition. The analysis shows that…
Unpaid Care Work's Interference with Paid Work and the Gender Earnings Gap in China
This paper examines the effects of unpaid care work on the earnings of men and women in China by using data from the 2008 China Time Use Survey, the country's first, large-scale time-use survey. The study introduces three indicators to measure the degree to which unpaid care work may “interfere” with paid work, either by directly disrupting it or by being intertwined with it. The regression estimates show that while the amount of time spent on un…
Domestic Violence and Women’s Land Rights in Rural China: Findings from a National Survey in 2010
In recent decades, China undertook a series of agricultural land tenure reforms to increase the security of land use rights for rural households. While these reforms boosted agricultural production, they also increased landlessness among women due to patrilocal and patrilineal customs. Utilising data from China’s Women Social Status Survey conducted in 2010, this paper examines the impact of women’s land rights on the incidence of domestic violen…
Relative Pay of Domestic Eldercare Workers in Shanghai, China
Domestic services represent a growing sector of the economy in many high- and upper-middle income countries. Demand for domestic workers for eldercare is especially high as a result of the rapid aging of the population in these countries. However, domestic eldercare employment is characterized as a low-pay, low-status occupation worldwide. This article examines the relative pay of domestic eldercare workers in urban China and its underlying deter…
Paid Maternity Leave and Breastfeeding in Urban China
Using data from the 2010 Survey on Chinese Women's Social Status, this contribution estimates the effect of paid maternity leave on breastfeeding duration in urban China during the 1988–2008 period. The analysis applies a policy-based identification strategy to control for the endogenous relationship between paid leave entitlements and breastfeeding decisions. Estimates show that paid maternity leave has a strong positive effect on breastfeeding …
Gender, Low-Paid Status, and Time Poverty in Urban China
Using synthetic data from the 2008 China Time Use Survey (CTUS) and the 2008 China Household Income Project (CHIP), this study estimates time-poverty rates and compares the profiles of time-poor men and women workers in urban China. In line with previous research, time poverty is defined as a lack of enough time for rest and leisure. Three time-poverty measures are adopted. By all three measures, women paid workers and low-paid workers account fo…
Childcare, Household Composition, Muslim Ethnicity, and Off-Farm Work in Rural China
This study explores how religious and ethnic norms and gender relations interact across the domestic and public spheres of work in rural China's minority-concentrated regions. It focuses on the roles that childcare and household composition play in the employment decisions of prime-age married individuals of Muslim and non-Muslim ethnicity. Using the 2012 China Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES), the study finds that children generally decrease wo…
Gender, Work Burden, and Mental Health in Post-Reform China
This study investigates how total work burden, including paid work and unpaid care work, affects the mental health of prime-age, employed women and men in urban China. Based on the 2010 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), regression results indicate that total work burden is negatively related to the mental health of both men and women, consistent with the idea that additional work hours reduce time available for rest and leisure. Women have longe…
Childcare Costs and Migrant and Local Mothers' Labor Force Participation in Urban China
This study empirically analyzes the impact of childcare costs on the labor force participation (LFP) and childcare utilization of migrant and local mothers of preschool-age children in urban China, using data from the 2010 National Dynamic Monitoring Survey of Floating Populations. The estimates show that childcare costs have a strong negative effect on the LFP and childcare utilization of migrant and local mothers. Compared to local mothers, the…
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