IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/reroxx/v33y2020i1p456-476.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Influences of the Cultural Revolution on the education and wages of today’s Chinese laborers

Author

Listed:
  • Li-Chen Chou
  • Wan-Hao Zhang
  • Zixuan Hu

Abstract

More than 40 years after the end of the Cultural Revolution, does it still affect today’s Chinese laborers? In this study, data from the 2012 Chinese General Social Survey are used to investigate the possible differences between the education and wage levels of the laborers of parents who have experienced the Cultural Revolution and others who have not. Empirical results show that the average education and wage levels of laborers whose parents have experienced the Cultural Revolution and attained at least primary education qualifications are significantly lower than other groups in the labor market. We believe that during the Cultural Revolution, the political and social climate lowered the public’s recognition of the value of education in society and reduced the incentive for human capital investment.

Suggested Citation

  • Li-Chen Chou & Wan-Hao Zhang & Zixuan Hu, 2020. "Influences of the Cultural Revolution on the education and wages of today’s Chinese laborers," Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(1), pages 456-476, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:reroxx:v:33:y:2020:i:1:p:456-476
    DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2020.1718522
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1718522
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1718522?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:reroxx:v:33:y:2020:i:1:p:456-476. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rero .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.