Skill complementarities and returns to higher education: Evidence from college enrollment expansion in China

Li, Hongbin; Ma, Yueyuan; Meng, Lingsheng; Qiao, Xue; Shi, Xinzheng

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2017.08.004

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“…The proportion of China's labor force having a college education increased from only 1.1 percent in 1980 to 12.5 percent in 2015. The rapid rise of the level of schooling during the past 30 years was a result of both higher demand, driven in no small part due to rising returns to education (Li, Li, Wu, and Xiong 2012), and higher supply, driven by aggressive government policies that engineered a rising supply of slots in public schools (Li, Ma, Meng, Qiao, and Shi 2016).…”

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Human Capital and China’s Future Growth

Loyalka

Rozelle

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Journal of Economic Perspectives

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In this paper, we consider the sources and prospects for economic growth in China with a focus on human capital. First, we provide an overview of the role that labor has played in China's economic success. We then describe China's hukou policy, which divides China's labor force into two distinct segments, one composed of rural workers and the other of urban workers. For the rural labor force, we focus on the challenges of raising human capital by both increasing basic educational attainment rates as well as the quality of education. For the urban labor force, we focus on the issues of further expanding enrollment in college education as well as improving the quality of college education. We use a regression model to show the typical relationship between human capital and output in economies around the world and demonstrate how that relationship has evolved since 1980. We show that China has made substantial strides both in the education level of its population and in the way that education is being rewarded in its labor markets. However, as we look ahead, our results imply that China may find it impossible to maintain what appears to be its desired growth rate of 7 percent in the next 20 years; a growth rate of 3 percent over the next two decades seems more plausible. Finally, we present policy recommendations, which are rooted in the belief that China continues to have substantial room to improve the human capital of its labor force.

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Human Capital and China’s Future Growth

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“…Many studies consider China's higher education expansion as a supply shock of skilled labors (Knight et al, ; Li et al, ). While their analysis of labor supply effects is at a more aggregate level (mostly prefecture level), we are more interested in the localized effects of UTs.…”

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“…Many studies consider China's higher education expansion as a supply shock of skilled labors (Knight et al, 2017;. While their analysis of labor supply effects is at a more aggregate level (mostly prefecture level), we 3 Several studies on China's higher education expansion policy mainly focus on its effect on wage (Knight, Deng, & Li, 2017;Li, Ma, Meng, Qiao, & Shi, 2017), firm performance (Che & Zhang, 2017), and job distribution (Yue, Yue, & Zhang, 2016).…”

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Universities and the Formation of Edge Cities: Evidence from China's Government‐led University Town Construction

Yuan

Wei

2020

Papers in Regional Science

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This paper examines the localized effect of clusters of universities by exploiting a university town (UT) construction boom in China. We show that UT establishment has generated positive impact on local night-time light density and population concentration. The UT effect is much localized, and completely decays within 10 km. We emphasize the role of knowledge spillover and find that UT establishment has increased local human capital level. The number of high skill labors as well as high-tech firms has experienced higher growth in UT districts, as they benefited more from knowledge spillovers. Finally, we find that land prices in the UT have appreciated by 7%-12% using a unique dataset of land parcel transactions. KEYWORDS university, localized effect, edge city, knowledge spillover JEL CLASSIFICATION I23; I25; R11; J24

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“…(1) Students as members of the Academic Community are positioned as adults who have their own awareness in developing their own potential in Higher Education to become intellectuals, scientists, practitioners, and / or professionals. (2) Students as referred to in paragraph (1) actively develop their potential by conducting learning, searching for scientific truths, and / or mastering, developing, and practicing a branch of Science and / or Technology to become scientists, intellectuals, practitioners, and / or cultured professionals. (3) Students have academic freedom by prioritizing noble reasoning and character and are responsible according to academic culture.…”

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“…All potential and opportunities in college should be maximized. [2]- [4] This is important because students are positioned by Law No. 0.…”

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Social Control on Postgraduate Students’ Deviant Behaviour

Ibrahim¹,

Hasni²

2018

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018)

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Social control is a concept as well as an institution that is almost always present and needed in every institution and social structure that exist in society. Prodi PIPS as a sub-institution / institution under the Faculty of Social Sciences Makassar State University also directly or indirectly activities and the actual process of social control undoubtedly its existence. The purpose of this study are: To determine the form of Social Control of deviant behavior of Social Science Education Studies Program Faculty of Social Sciences Makassar State University, this character is a qualitative research with phenomenology approach. The data collection techniques are: interview, observation, documentation. Data analysis of this research is done by categorization. The results showed that every human potential to perform deviant behavior is no exception students. Preventive and repressive social control are two forms of collective-functional control which means all elements / societies of PIPS Prodi based on their function. They have social control over student deviant behavior. The collective-functional control of the PIPS Prodi community is not yet maximized, yet consistently integratedcontinuously. If all elements of the Prodi PIPS community that is the lecturers, data pengimput and leadership Prodi involved in controlling behavior deviant students will be controlled from deviant behavior.

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Skill complementarities and returns to higher education: Evidence from college enrollment expansion in China

Cited by 53 publications

References 19 publications

Human Capital and China’s Future Growth

Human Capital and China’s Future Growth

Universities and the Formation of Edge Cities: Evidence from China's Government‐led University Town Construction

Social Control on Postgraduate Students’ Deviant Behaviour

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