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Wage determination and returns to education in different ownerships of China: Evidence from quantile regressions

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  • XING Chunbing

    (School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinA)

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In this paper, quantile regressions is used to estimate wage equations of different ownerships. Quantile regressions give us distributions rather than a single estimate of the returns both to education and experience in each ownership sector. For state-owned enterprises (SOE), the returns to education tended to be larger at the bottom of the conditional distribution of wages in 1991 and 1993, and there was no such trend in 1997. For the private sector, however, the returns to education tended to be larger at the top positions in 1993 and 1997. It is also found that the growth rates of the wages at the bottom of the conditional distribution of wages are higher than those at the top in SOEs. No such patterns for the private sector is found. It is suggested the wage mechanism in the private sector is more market-oriented

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  • XING Chunbing, 2007. "Wage determination and returns to education in different ownerships of China: Evidence from quantile regressions," Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities, Higher Education Press, vol. 2(1), pages 114-136, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:fec:journl:v:2:y:2007:i:1:p:114-136
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    Cited by:

    1. Ghulam Sarwar & Muhammad Saeed Hashmi, 2014. "Returns to Education and Earning Inequality Nexus: A Micro-Econometric Analysis for Pakistan," Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, AMH International, vol. 6(1), pages 32-36.
    2. Xing, Chunbing & Li, Shi, 2012. "Residual wage inequality in urban China, 1995–2007," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 23(2), pages 205-222.
    3. Cui, Yuling & Nahm, Daehoon & Tani, Massimiliano, 2013. "Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008," IZA Discussion Papers 7349, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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    Keywords

    uantile regressions; returns to education; wage-experience profile; ownerships;
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    JEL classification:

    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General

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