Education expansion and returns to schooling in urban China, 2001-2010: evidence from three waves of the China Urban Labor Survey

被引：29

作者：

Gao, Wenshu ^{[1
]}

Smyth, Russell ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Populat & Labor Econ, Beijing, Peoples R China

[2] Monash Univ, Dept Econ, Clayton, Vic, Australia

来源：

JOURNAL OF THE ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMY | 2015年 / 20卷 / 02期

关键词：

education expansion; China; returns to schooling; ECONOMIC RETURNS; EARNINGS; WAGES; INVESTMENT; TRANSITION; EVOLUTION; MARKET; REFORM; OLS;

D O I：

10.1080/13547860.2014.970607

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This study examines the effect of the expansion in education that occurred in the first decade of the twenty-first century on the returns to schooling in urban China for migrants and non-migrants using three waves of the China Urban Labor Survey (CULS), corresponding to 2001, 2005 and 2010. Our main finding is that the premium to education increased by about 2%-3% over a period in which there was a rapid increase in education levels. This result is consistent with the demand for skilled labor increasing at a time when China tries to move up the value-added chain and an observed increase in urban wage inequality. We find that the education premium is higher for non-migrants than migrants and higher for males than females.

引用

页码：178 / 201

页数：24