We explore education's role in improving the allocation of labor between China's agricultural and nonagricultural … sectors and measure the portion of China's recent growth attributable to this channel. Using detailed micro-level data and an …

sets, and variable definitions could contribute to the differences in estimates of returns to education in China. The …, this accelerating trend has reached a stop in the last few years when the global recession hit China. We also find that … conclude that the increasing reward for human capital accumulation over time signals that China is moving toward a well …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China …

This paper empirically estimates the return to education using twins data that the authors collected from urban China … that it may be a consequence of China's education system, which is highly selective and exam oriented. More specifically …