Abstract:This research studied the Chinese gender social stratification by creating the Direct and Indirect 'Social Class Index' (SCI) for each observation. Adopting the Principal Component Analysis, both indices combined many social aspects, such as occupation, ownership, industry, job stability, year of school and hourly earnings etc. In addition, with a changed variable set, which included the occupation concerning information in labour market, and also the household redistribution and exchange impact, a new 'SCI' w… Show more
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