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How does education at all levels influence productivity growth? Evidence from the Chinese provinces

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  • Ping HUA

    (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS))

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This article investigates the different effects that primary education, secondary education and university education exert on total factor productivity growth and its two components. Firstly, we give the theoretical arguments explaining these effects. Then, for the twenty-nine Chinese provinces we calculate DEA Malmquist indices of productivity growth for the period from 1993 to 2001. Finally we present a panel econometric model of productivity growth. We show that university education has a favourable effect both on efficiency growth and technical progress, while primary education and secondary education have an unfavourable one on efficiency growth. Moreover, the favorable effect of university education on efficiency change is through the reallocation of university-educated workers into the more efficient non-state sector.

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  • Ping HUA, 2005. "How does education at all levels influence productivity growth? Evidence from the Chinese provinces," Working Papers 200515, CERDI.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdi:wpaper:720
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    1. Edgar Ortiz & Miriam Sosa & Héctor Díaz, 2015. "Educational Levels and the Impact of ICT on Economic Growth: Evidence of a Cointegrated Panel," International Journal of Business and Social Research, LAR Center Press, vol. 5(9), pages 15-30, September.
    2. Koye Gerry Bokana & Gbenga Wilfred Akinola, 2017. "Productivity effects of higher education human capital in selected countries of Sub-Saharan Africa," Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci/Proceedings of Rijeka Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Economics and Business, vol. 35(1), pages 173-198.
    3. Edgar Ortiz & Miriam Sosa & Héctor Díaz, 2015. "Educational Levels and the Impact of ICT on Economic Growth: Evidence of a Cointegrated Panel," International Journal of Business and Social Research, MIR Center for Socio-Economic Research, vol. 5(9), pages 15-30, September.
    4. Guillaumont Jeanneney, Sylviane & Hua, Ping, 2011. "How does real exchange rate influence labour productivity in China?," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 22(4), pages 628-645.

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