From One-Child to Three-Child Policy: Study of Women's Equal Payment for Equal Work in the Context of the Change in Policy
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Women; Three-child Policy; Equal payment for equal work.Abstract
In the past 42 years, China's fertility policy has experienced and repeated exploration and continuous improvement process, which can be roughly divided into three stages. In 1980, the one-child policy was introduced. In 2016, the country officially allowed two children. In 2021, the three-child policy was fully released. This research tests the relationship between fertility policy change (one-child to three-child policy) and the equal pay for equal work of women. The study applies mixed-research method and critical paradigm. Firstly, the study uses experiment by constructing virtual CVs with 4 categories of women, including women with no children, one child, two children, and three children, which can test the effect of the number of children women have on companies' willingness to pay. Secondly, the research also analyze secondary data from NBS. This study will collect the average wages of men and women over three periods of time (shift of fertility policy) to calculate them as ratios by using scatter plots to find changes and conclude that the three-child policy is related to the issue of equal pay for women for equal work.
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