This paper studies the impact of skill formation on employment opportunities and wages. Instead of international trade theory or technological progress theory, the paper focuses on labor "skill formation" to investigate the employment discrimination and skill wage inequality in the Chinese labor...

This paper studies the impact of skill formation on employment opportunities and wages. Instead of international trade theory or technological progress theory, the paper focuses on labor "skill formation" to investigate the employment discrimination and skill wage inequality in the Chinese labor...

This paper contributes to the literature on innovation policies and institutional theory on conditions for effective institutional changes. The "three rights" reform of 26 universities and the mixed ownership reform of Southwest Jiaotong University are important explorations made by China in...