Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001

Zhang, Junsen; Zhao, Yaohui; Park, Albert; Song, Xiaoqing

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2005.05.008

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“…This explanation is fundamentally different from that for western countries, which emphasizes skill biased technological change. At the same time, this result is consistent with most of the existing research on China emphasizing the role of institutional change (Zhang et al, 2005, Meng et al, 2010, Cai et al, 2010. Another finding is that China's entry into WTO has a positive effect on the enlargement of upper half distributions.…”

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“…This result is consistent with existing literature that studying the evolutions of return to educations. For example, Zhang et al, (2005) find that returns increased from 1988 to 2001, Li and Ding (2003) also find this pattern. The fact that we are looking into residual inequality differentiate our research from theirs.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…This finding helps to differentiate this paper from the existing ones further. Most of the existing research either simply declined to consider globalization as a potential explanatory variable, or dismiss it as unimportant (Zhang et al, 2005 for example). At this moment, I am only aware of one research that emphasizing globalization's effect on urban inequality, Cai et al, (2010).…”

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“…We discuss the changes in the returns to both characteristics in turn. Figure 2 confirms the overall rise in the return to education in urban China from 1988 up to 2002 that has been previously reported (Appleton, et al 2005;Zhang, et al 2005). The plotted line for 2002 dominates that for all previous years.…”

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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988–2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

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“…The 8 The data can be obtained from the Urban Survey Department, China National Bureau of Statistics. 9 Only data from six provinces in the Urban Household Survey has been available to the research community, see Zhang et al (2005) and Zhang et al (2008).…”

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Parental education and wages: Evidence from China

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2011

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Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988 to 2001

Cited by 383 publications

References 26 publications

Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995–2007

Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995–2007

Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988–2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

Parental education and wages: Evidence from China

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