Academic literature on the topic 'Wages Wage differential Education China'

This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China’s urban labor market. The traditional Blinder–Oaxaca (1973) decomposition method with different weighing systems is employed. To correct for potential selection bias caused by women’s labor force participation, we employ the Heckman’s two-step procedure to estimate the female wage function. A large proportion of the gender wage gap is unexplained by differences of productive characteristics of individuals. Even though women have higher level of education attainments on average, they receive lower wages than men. Both facts suggest a potential discrimination against women in China.

Using a model of statistical discrimination and educational sorting, we explain why blacks get more education than whites of similar cognitive ability, and we explore how the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT), wages, and education are related. The model suggests that one should control for both AFQT and education when comparing the earnings of blacks and whites, in which case a substantial black-white wage differential emerges. We reject the hypothesis that differences in school quality between blacks and whites explain the wage and education differentials. Our findings support the view that some of the black-white wage differential reflects the operation of the labor market. (JEL I21, J15, J24, J31, J71)

Wage differential due to employer size is one of the key areas of interest in labour market research because a strong positive relationship between employer size and wages has been observed in developed and developing countries. It is, however, relatively neglected area of research in Pakistan. The purpose of present study is to investigate the employer size wage differential by looking at human capital factors. The study is based on standard methodology and estimates earning functions on Labour Force Survey (LFS) data for year 2007-08. Results clearly show that human capital investment has a bigger role in determining wages in the larger firms as compared to smaller firms. The main policy implications emanating from the analysis are the higher investment in skill which increases opportunities for workers in the labour market for higher wages and for jobs with good characteristics especially in large sized firms. The government policy towards education and skill formation needs serious reforms and better allocation of funds so that people get chance to enhance their skill level hence wages. JEL classification: J31, J40, J24 Keywords: Wage Differential, Human Capital, Labour Market

Global obesity as a major public health problem has increased at pandemic rate, with men often outpacing women. Survey data show that the overall prevalence of obesity is higher among women than men, yet in high-income developed countries, the prevalence of overweight is higher among men than women. The differential impact of different economic stages has prompted research in transition economies such as China. Using an instrumental variable approach based on a sample of 13,574 individuals from nine provinces in the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP), we find a 7% excess-weight premium in wages for overweight men and a 4.6% penalty for overweight women, compared to their healthy-weight peers. We also find an inverse u-shaped association between the body mass index (BMI) and logarithm of monthly income for men, with an implied optimum above the threshold of obesity, while women are better off the slimmer they are. The excess-weight premium in wages for Chinese urban men might be associated with entrenched business practices of excessive dining and drinking associated with senior positions. Policies aimed at reducing obesity in China must be adapted to its unique sociocultural context in order to have gender-differentiated effects.

Are Indonesian government officials overpaid? If they are, should Indonesia’s decision makers reduce the civil servants’ wage rate? Practically, the best comparison for the public sector’s wage is the private sector’s remuneration. Therefore, this study investigates the wage differential between public and private sectors in Indonesia. To obtain robust estimations, it needs to eliminate the effects from differences in workers’ and jobs’ characteristic as well as the selection bias problem. Therefore, it applies various methodologies such as Heckman Correction Method and Quantile Wage Regression by using the newest data retrieved from Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) 5 in 2014. The results suggest that differences in wages among two sectors are positive, meaning that Indonesia’s government workers earned higher wages with respect to their private counterparts. Some of those results were consistent with former studies in other countries but revealed different trends compared to previous Indonesian data. The wage gap found in this study was higher for individuals with tertiary education level and varied along the wage distribution.

Few countries have higher wage inequality than South Africa, where wages of African and white workers differ by a factor of five. Using survey data collected in 1993, the authors analyze the complex effect of unions on this wage gap. Among male African workers in the bottom decile of the wage distribution, union membership was associated with wages that were 145% higher than those of comparable nonunion workers, and among those in the top decile the differential was 19%. Regression estimates also indicate that returns to observed productive characteristics of workers, such as education and experience, were larger for nonunion than union workers. If the large union relative wage effect were cut in half, the authors estimate that employment of African youth, age 16–29, would increase by two percentage points, and their labor force participation rate would also increase substantially.

AbstractOne of the defining features of China’s economy over the two decades between 1995 and 2015 was the persistent rise of wages for workers and professionals in nearly every segment of the economy—with wage rates for labor-intensive jobs in manufacturing, construction, and the informal service sector rising the fastest. Recently, however, the economic environment in China has begun to change, including changes in both employment and wages. We identify recent employment/wage trends throughout China’s economy and postulate the sources of these trends as well as possible future consequences if they continue. We use official, nationally aggregated data to examine employment and wages in multiple sectors and industries. Our findings indicate that China may have entered a new phase of economic development in the mid-2010s. According to the data, in recent years, wage growth has begun to polarize: Rising for professionals employed in formal skill-intensive industries; and falling for workers in the informal labor-intensive service sector. We attribute this increase in skill-intensive wages to an increase in demand for skill-intensive employment, due to the emergence of a large middle class in China, for whom the demand for high technology, finance, banking, health, and higher education industries is increasing while, at least in the recent short term, the supply of experienced, high-skilled professionals has not kept up. The employment/wage trend in the informal (low-wage) service sector, however, is following a different pattern. While there is a rising demand for services in China’s economy, the growth, due to a number of factors (e.g., large shares of GDP targeted by policymakers to investment; high rates of savings by consumers), is relatively slow. In contrast, due to a number of economic forces, including globalization and automation, the supply of labor into the service sector of the informal economy is being fueled by the flow of labor out of manufacturing and construction (two industries that that have experienced employment declines since 2013). These supply and demand trends, in turn, are leading to the fall in the growth rate of wages in the informal service sector. We conclude by discussing the possible longer-term consequences of these emerging polarization trends based on an examination of recent experience with wage polarization occurring in both middle- and high-income countries, as well as its consequences. We also present policy recommendations for greater investment in education and human capital, as well as for the development of a more comprehensive set of social safety nets for different segments of China’s population.

<p>This paper analyses the evolution of the wage return to tertiary education in Spain,<br />distinguishing between advanced vocational training and university education. Using<br />microdata from the Spanish Structure of Earnings Survey, the study estimates wage equations<br />which, in addition to considering the human capital and the personal and employment<br />characteristics of individuals as causal factors, includes a measure of the excess labour supply<br />of university graduates by region. The results show that the wage differential of the graduate<br />population fell, in general, in the period 1995-2006, and that a relatively high supply of<br />graduates in the regional labour market negatively affects wages in such regions, and that<br />these effects increase over time.</p>

This article investigates college graduates in Beijing, China, and asks, First: Whether college graduates without local hukou are prone to educational mismatch? Second: What role does the hukou system play in the educational mismatch? And third: Whether college graduates without local hukou are willing to lower their wages in order to get a hukou? I use the Beijing College Students Panel Survey (BCSPS), and multinomial logit models and the linear regression analyses are conducted. I find that college graduates with (without) local hukou through job are more likely to be vertical and full mismatch than locals, and those who obtain a hukou through job have a higher full mismatch. After considering the educational mismatch, there is no significant difference in monthly wages between college graduates (not) having a hukou by work and locals.

Li Yan.
Thesis submitted in: September 1998.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-48).
Abstract also in Chinese.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.i
ABSTRACT --- p.ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii
LIST OF TABLES --- p.v
Chapter
Chapter I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Chapter II --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.5
Chapter 2.1 --- Different Approach to Estimate the Rate of Return to Education --- p.5
Chapter 2.2 --- Age-Cohort Analysis --- p.8
Chapter 2.3 --- Gender Earning Gaps and Decomposition of Wage Differentials --- p.9
Chapter III --- DATA DESCRIPTION --- p.13
Chapter 3.1 --- Data and Methodology --- p.13
Chapter 3.2 --- Education Attainment of Males and Females of Different Cohort --- p.15
Chapter 3.3 --- Monthly Earnings of Individual with Different Educational Level --- p.17
Chapter IV --- REGRESSION ANALYSIS FOR THE RETURNS TO EDUCATION AND THE GENDER EARNING GAPS IN HONG KONG --- p.18
Chapter 4.1 --- Determinants of Monthly Earnings and the Returns to Education --- p.18
Chapter 4.2 --- Returns to Education with respect to Marrage and Age Cohorts --- p.22
Chapter 4.3 --- The Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition --- p.23
Chapter V --- MULTINOMIAL LOGIT ANALYSIS FOR THE RETURNS TO EDUCATION AND THE GENDER EARNING GAPS IN HONG KONG --- p.28
Chapter 5.1 --- The Occupational Distribution --- p.28
Chapter 5.2 --- The Gender Earning Gap across Occupations --- p.31
Chapter 5.3 --- Multinomial Logit Model and the Effect of Educational Attainment --- p.32
Chapter 5.4 --- Prediction of a Nondiscriminatory Occupational Structure for Female --- p.35
Chapter 5.5 --- Occupational Segregation and the Brown et al. Decomposition Method --- p.36
Chapter VI --- POLICY IMPLICATIONS --- p.43
Chapter VII --- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS --- p.45
REFERENCES --- p.47
TABLES --- p.49

Kung Ching-yi.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-191).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract --- p.i
Acknowledgement --- p.iii
Table of Contents --- p.v
List of Figures --- p.vi
List of Tables --- p.vii
Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.8
Chapter Chapter 3. --- Data --- p.32
Chapter Chapter 4. --- The Gender Wage Differential: A First Look --- p.49
Chapter Chapter 5. --- Returns to Schooling --- p.89
Chapter Chapter 6. --- Decomposition of Gender Wage Differential --- p.140
Chapter Chapter 7. --- Change of the Gender Wage Differentials from 1988through1999 --- p.163
Chapter Chapter 8. --- Conclusion --- p.178
Appendix: Alternative Treatments of Schooling Years and Potential Experience --- p.181
References --- p.187

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003.
Advisor: John P. Lunstrum, Florida State University, College of Education, Dept. of Middle and Secondary Education. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Mar. 9, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

利用“甘肃基础教育调查(The Gansu Survey of Children and Families, 2007)提供的数据，以特征工资理论(Hedonic Wage Theory)为基础，本研究建构了一个从个人特征和岗位特征两方面解读甘肃农村公办教师工资差异形成机制和潜在后果的解释框架。
本研究利用科学抽样的微观数据，以特征工资理论的投资假说和消费假说为基础，探讨甘肃农村教师收入差异的前因后果。运用多层线性技术对“特征的逐层分解凸显了环境结构变量对教师工资的层次性影响。研究的主要内容如下：(1)教师个人特征和教职岗位特征在工资及差异结构中的影响性质和强度；(2)工资和包括工作条件及生活环境在内的教职岗位特征在教师职业效用中的替代性及其办学成本意义；(3)地区政策与教师工资差异格局及其教育财政涵义。
通过对甘肃这个边远贫穷地区农村教师工资进行微观计量分析，本研究得出如下主要结论：
教师个人特征和教职岗位特征均是工资差异来源的主成因素。个人特征和岗位特征在收入差异形成过程中分别对应特征工资理论之投资性收益和消费性补偿。一方面，个人素质越高，收入越高；另一方面，与优越的岗位环境相联系的是更低的工资收入。换言之，艰苦的条件对应补偿性工资差异。
工资与教职岗位环境特征在教师职业效用偏好结构中具有替代性。岗位环境与工资的替代率介于-0.03和0.05间。负值代表教师愿意接受较低的工资以换取更优越的工作环境和社区设施，即为在某优越的县(区)工作而承受的工资损失。因此，教学条件和生活环境更艰苦的边穷地区需提供等效用的经济补偿才能保证师资质量。
出于经济补偿的考虑，扶贫政策比边远艰苦地区津补贴方案更有效地鉴别了岗位环境的恶劣程度。贫困地区的教学条件和生活环境更艰苦，由此带来的心理负效用反映在消费性补偿中。与“贫困相联系的不良岗位属性产生的负效用折合成工资约15%。
结合教师偏好和地区政策，更边远艰苦或贫困地区可以通过教师工资成本指数的形式，将额外聘用成本加权到教育财政预算中，以实现均衡发展和社会公平。国贫县聘用一名同等质量的普通合格教师，边际成本高于平均水平10%。但办学成本与边远艰苦等级的关系没有固定规律：更边远的三类地区招聘一名教师的成本只相当于平均水平的74%；而二类地区则需多花3.6-11.8%的附加成本。
本研究的政策启示包括：
第一，边远艰苦地区政策和扶贫政策的针对性不同。虽然边远艰苦地区津补贴政策所鉴定的县(区)地理属性可能具有重要的公共财政意义，但扶贫政策有更明显的区分度，可提供更清晰的教育财政政策启示。
第二，将原始资源禀赋等外部不可控因素造成的额外人员开支纳入财政方案中，并以教师工资成本指数的形式提升其预算等级，是保障各地师资配置从而实现教育均衡和机会均等的公平而有效方法。
Based on the Gansu Survey of Children and Families(GSCF, 2007), this thesis investigates the hierarchical effects of teacher personal characteristics and teaching job attributes as determinants of wages and sources of variations from the perspective of Hedonic Wage Theory.
Based on the Hedonic Wage Theory, this study has made use of a scientific sampled micro data set to analyze teacher wage disparities in rural Gansu, which is a typical less-developed northwestern remote province in Mainland China. Hierarchical Linear Modeling(HLM) is employed to study the regional effects. Major foci of this thesis consist of: (1)The nature and strength of economic values of teacher personal characteristics and teaching job attributes. (2)The substitution between pecuniary rewards from wages and non-pecuniary benefit derived from working conditions and living amenities, and its implications for teacher personnel costs. (3)How regional policies are related to teacher wage variations and what can government do to narrow the consequential gap in education service.
The conclusions of the study include:
Both teacher personal characteristics and teaching job attributes are major determining factors of wages. Human capital components proxying higher teacher quality are positively compensated, while better daily working and living conditions are paid in the form of lower wages. In other words, hardships are associated with compensating wage differentials.
Working conditions in schools and living conditions in community where the teaching position is located are substitutable with wages. The substitution between wages and job conditions varies from -0.03 to 0.05. Negative values mean that teachers are willing to accept lower wages to work in a better-off county. It costs more for hard-to-staff regions to recruit a comparable teacher.
In consideration of wage compensations, the “Helping the Poor policy can give a better indication than the “Subsidy to Remote and Difficult Districts Scheme. Dis-utilities from uncomfortable working and living environment in poor counties cost 15% extra wage expenditures.
Accounting for teacher utility preference, disadvantageous counties classified by economic-geographic features should be financially aided based on teacher cost index(TCI) to recruit and retain quality teachers. Simulation implies that counties labeled as “poor should be provided 10% more marginal personnel budget in order to hire an average teacher who meets the basic education requirements. However, fiscal assistances based on degree of remoteness do not show consistent patterns. The most remote counties can hire a comparable teacher at a cost of only 74% of the average, while those second most remote ones pay 3.6-11.8% more.
There are two major policy implications from the results of the study:
(1)The “Subsidy to Remote and Difficult Districts Scheme and the “Helping the Poor policy have different focuses. Though the former scheme may have public-goods considerations, the latter can give a clear and differentiative policy implication for education finance.
(2)It would be an equitable and efficient way to incorporate uncontrollable external factors into a teacher wage index(TCI), and to use it to adjust education financial strategies to these difficult areas.
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馬紅梅.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-173)
Abstracts in Chinese and English.
Ma Hongmei.
Chapter 第一章 --- 研究问题与背景 --- p.1
Chapter 第一节 --- 问题陈述 --- p.1
Chapter 一、 --- 研究问题 --- p.1
Chapter 二、 --- 研究目的 --- p.3
Chapter 三、 --- 研究意义 --- p.5
Chapter 第二节 --- 研究背景 --- p.7
Chapter 一、 --- 现实背景 --- p.7
Chapter 二、 --- 政策背景 --- p.12
Chapter 第三节 --- 论文结构 --- p.25
Chapter 第二章 --- 文献综述 --- p.27
Chapter 第一节 --- 特征工资理论的内容概要 --- p.27
Chapter 一、 --- 特征二因素主张 --- p.28
Chapter 二、 --- 特征的双重补偿 --- p.29
Chapter 三、 --- 职业效用最大化 --- p.32
Chapter 第二节 --- 特征工资理论之消费假说 --- p.33
Chapter 一、 --- 消费性补偿的工资理论 --- p.33
Chapter 二、 --- 消费性补偿经济学分析 --- p.34
Chapter 三、 --- 消费性补偿的现实意义 --- p.39
Chapter 第三节 --- 教师工资特征性补偿综述 --- p.44
Chapter 一、 --- 研究概况 --- p.44
Chapter 二、 --- 教师特征 --- p.47
Chapter 三、 --- 教职特征 --- p.48
Chapter 第四节 --- 教师工资分解的研究启示 --- p.50
Chapter 一、 --- 国外文献 --- p.51
Chapter 二、 --- 国内文献 --- p.52
Chapter 第三章 --- 研究设计 --- p.56
Chapter 第一节 --- 研究方法 --- p.56
Chapter 第二节 --- 数据描述 --- p.60
Chapter 一、 --- 数据来源 --- p.60
Chapter 二、 --- 样本信息 --- p.61
Chapter 第三节 --- 变量界定与分布 --- p.64
Chapter 一、 --- 因变量：教师月工资 --- p.65
Chapter 二、 --- 自变量：个人特征和岗位特征 --- p.68
Chapter 第四节 --- 研究架构 --- p.85
Chapter 一、 --- 分析结构 --- p.85
Chapter 二、 --- 模型界定 --- p.86
Chapter 第四章 --- 教师工资差异的形成机制 --- p.89
Chapter 第一节 --- 教师工资的影响因素 --- p.89
Chapter 一、 --- 教师个人特征：主导因素 --- p.89
Chapter 二、 --- 教职岗位特征：关键因素 --- p.90
Chapter 三、 --- 小结：决定教师工资的双重特征 --- p.91
Chapter 第二节 --- 基于教师个人特征的投资性收益 --- p.92
Chapter 一、 --- 解释变量：人力资本特征 --- p.92
Chapter 二、 --- 控制变量：个人背景特征 --- p.97
Chapter 三、 --- 小结：教师个人特征对工资的影响 --- p.103
Chapter 第三节 --- 基于教职岗位特征的消费性补偿 --- p.104
Chapter 一、 --- 学校实时工作环境 --- p.104
Chapter 二、 --- 县(区)社区人居环境 --- p.111
Chapter 三、 --- 小结：教职岗位特征对工资的影响 --- p.117
Chapter 第四节 --- 本章小结 --- p.119
Chapter 第五章 --- 国家政策对教师工资的影响 --- p.125
Chapter 第一节 --- 地区政策与教师工资 --- p.125
Chapter 一、 --- 边远艰苦地区政策与教师工资 --- p.125
Chapter 二、 --- 国家扶贫政策与教师工资 --- p.131
Chapter 三、 --- 小结：边穷地区政策与教师工资 --- p.134
Chapter 第二节 --- 地区政策的教育成本意义 --- p.136
Chapter 一、 --- 教师人员成本指数的建构 --- p.136
Chapter 二、 --- 边穷属性的成本指数 --- p.138
Chapter 三、 --- 小结：边穷地区政策的教育成本意义 --- p.143
Chapter 第三节 --- 本章小结 --- p.145
Chapter 第六章 --- 结语 --- p.148
Chapter 第一节 --- 主要实证结果 --- p.148
Chapter 一、 --- 教师工资差异的影响因素：个人特征与岗位特征 --- p.148
Chapter 二、 --- 教师工资差异的形成机制：特征性双重补偿 --- p.149
Chapter 三、 --- 边穷地区政策与教师工资的关系：消费性补偿 --- p.151
Chapter 四、 --- 地区政策的教育财政意义：教师工资成本指数化 --- p.152
Chapter 第二节 --- 政策启示 --- p.153
Chapter 一、 --- 教育财政意义 --- p.153
Chapter 二、 --- 完善地区政策 --- p.154
Chapter 第三节 --- 研究总结 --- p.155
Chapter 一、 --- 研究贡献 --- p.155
Chapter 二、 --- 研究不足 --- p.157
Chapter 三、 --- 研究展望 --- p.158
参考文献 --- p.160
附录 --- p.160