Returns to Schooling in China Under Planning and Reform
Belton Fleisher () and
Xiaojun Wang ()
William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
Abstract:
We estimate returns to schooling using a retrospective work history survey covering more than 4,000 workers over the period 1950 to 1994, with particular emphasis to the returns to schooling for workers who attended institutes of higher education and who graduated from college. We find evidence that schooling returns declined throughout the period leading up to the Cultural Revolution (CR), with returns for workers who did not attend college becoming negligible. Returns to those with some college education remained positive, but low compared to other countries. Consistent with other studies, we find that returns to schooling did not recover from their CR low until the 1990s. Increases in the return to schooling during the transition following the CR were not associated directly with workers changing jobs or with taking “new-economy” jobs but appear to have occurred for most workers across all ownership categories. Workers most likely to leave jobs in the traditional ownership sector for jobs in the private or jointventure categories were those who entered the labor force prior to 1967. We do not find evidence supporting other studies’ finding that schooling returns for college graduates increased more than for workers with lower levels of schooling attainment.
Keywords: returns to schooling; skills; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2004-06-01
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