Abstract Based on the data from the CGSS2010, we explored the magnitude, direction and the sources of the gender discrimination in China’s urban labor market by quantile regression and MM decomposition. Findings were that gender wage gap fluctuates irregularly from the lower end to the higher end of the wage distribution; female workers’ endowment does not distinctly prevail over the male workers’; the contribution of the discrimination to the wage gap exceeds that of the endowment in most of the quantiles and counts for the main part of the gap. Discrimination against women are mainly coming from four human capital variables, education, experience, health and mother’s education with counter-discrimination coming from the two structural variables, ownership and scale, which are becoming more significantly in the higher end of the quatile.
2015, Vol. 32 
