“Reverse Mixed Reform”, Marketization Process and Internal Pay Gap

Authors

  • Hanye Zhang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/4xbxnf31

Keywords:

Reverse Mixed Reform; Internal Pay Gap; Marketization Process.

Abstract

Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism and the common aspiration of the people, and improving the income distribution system is an important path to achieving common prosperity. However, there are still problems in the field of distribution, which hinder the pace of achieving common prosperity. Based on this, this paper takes listed companies from 2007 to 2022 as samples to empirically test the impact of “reverse mixed reform” on the internal pay gap of private enterprises and the moderating effect of marketization process. It is found that “reverse mixed reform” can significantly reduce the internal pay gap, while the marketization process negatively moderates the effect of “reverse mixed reform” on the internal pay gap, and this result still holds in the robustness test. This study helps to enrich the research on the economic consequences of “reverse mixed reform” and the factors affecting the internal pay gap.

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Published

08-07-2025

How to Cite

Zhang, H. (2025). “Reverse Mixed Reform”, Marketization Process and Internal Pay Gap. Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, 54, 268-286. https://doi.org/10.54097/4xbxnf31