scholarly journals English Language Teaching and Curricula in the People's Republic of China

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Ngan
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China

scholarly journals Labor Market Returns to Education and English Language Skills in the People's Republic of China: An Update

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Niaz Asadullah ◽  
Saizi Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
English Language ◽  
Returns To Education ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
English Language Skills

We reexamine the economic returns to education in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using data from the Chinese General Social Survey 2010. We find that the conventional ordinary least squares estimate of wage returns to schooling is 7.8%, while the instrumental variable estimate is 20.9%. The gains from schooling rise sharply with higher levels of education. The estimated returns are 12.2% in urban provinces and 10.7% in coastal provinces, higher than in rural and inland areas. In addition, the wage premium for workers with good English skills (speaking and listening) is 30%. These results are robust to controls for height, body mass index, and English language skills, and to corrections for sample selection bias. Our findings, together with a critical review of existing studies, confirm the growing significance of human capital as a determinant of labor market performance in postreform PRC.

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