Health, Education, and Economic Well-Being in China: How Do Human Capital and Social Interaction Influence Economic Returns

被引:8
作者
Ali, Tajwar [1 ]
Khan, Salim [2 ]
机构
[1] Zhengzhou Univ, Sch Hist, Dept World Hist, Zhengzhou 450001, Peoples R China
[2] Zhengzhou Univ, Business Sch, Zhengzhou 450001, Peoples R China
关键词
Chinese General Social Survey; economic returns; employment; income premium; instrumental variable; COMMUNIST-PARTY MEMBERSHIP; LABOR-MARKET-SEGMENTATION; GENDER INEQUALITY; BEHAVIORAL BIASES; EMPLOYMENT; IMPACT; PERFORMANCE; HAPPINESS; EARNINGS; PREMIUM;
D O I
10.3390/bs13030209
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
In developing countries, it is generally believed that a good health status and education (human capital) bring economic well-being and benefits. Some researchers have found that there are overall financial returns and income premiums correlated with human capital because of its excellent and higher ability. Due to different views and a lack of consensus, the role of human capital is still ambiguous and poorly understood. This study investigates the economic returns of health status, education level, and social interaction, that is, whether and how human capital and social interaction affect employment and income premiums. Using the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) for specification bias, we used the instrumental variable (IV) approach to specify the endogeneity and interaction effect in order to identify the impact and economic returns of human capital and social interaction on the values of other control and observed variables. However, we show that an individual with strong and higher human capital positively affects economic returns, but the variability of these estimates differs across estimators. Being more socially interactive is regarded as a type of social interaction but as not human capital in the labor market; thus, the empirical findings of this study reflect social stability and that the economic well-being of socially active individuals is an advantaged situation. Furthermore, men with substantial human capital and social interaction are in a more advantaged position compared to women with similar abilities.
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