Returns to Education in Market Transition during the Reform Period 1988

Autor/in	Xiang, Jifa
Titel	Returns to Education in Market Transition during the Reform Period 1988 - 2002, China.
Quelle	Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin (2014), xii, 207 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Diss., 2014.
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
URN	urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudissthesis000000097534-2
Schlagwörter	Übergang; Rückkehr; Humankapital; Markt; Dissertation
Abstract	This dissertation pictures the returns to education in China´s market transition period during 1988 to 2002 focusing on three target groups, namely, urban individual workers, rural households, and rural-urban migrants. Using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) data sets, this dissertation firstly examines the returns to education for urban individual workers over the period of market transition to echo the controversy on market transition theory. The results from a regression model shows clearly an upward change of the wage returns to education in the process of market transition period which the survey data covered. However, with a huge variation among economic sectors: the state/public sector, i.e., governmental agency/institution holds advantageous position over other sectors on wage returns. The interaction between education and economic sectors indicates a growing effect for market sectors. Secondly, this dissertation tests how rural-urban migration reshapes the household income generation scheme through comparing income composing between households with migrants and those without. The coefficients of variables representing human capital are not significantly positive. This finding suggests other factors play a vital role in rural household income generation relative to human capital. Thirdly, this dissertation also take a glance at the huge disparities between urban native workers and rural-urban permanent migrant workers, and discuss the comparability of the human capital return mechanism by reviewing human capital, signalling, and labour market segmentation models. The discussion of this part suggests that the validation of the theoretical models requires a longitudinal and continuing observation of labour market evolution. These three independent stories make up the comprehensive picture of the returns to education in market transition period in China. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2015/1