 Wage determination and returns to education in different ownerships of China: Evidence from quantile regressionsFrontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities, 2007, vol. 2, issue 1, 114-136 Abstract: In this paper, quantile regressions is used to estimate wage equations of different ownerships. Quantile regressions give us distributions rather than a single estimate of the returns both to education and experience in each ownership sector. For state-owned enterprises (SOE), the returns to education tended to be larger at the bottom of the conditional distribution of wages in 1991 and 1993, and there was no such trend in 1997. For the private sector, however, the returns to education tended to be larger at the top positions in 1993 and 1997. It is also found that the growth rates of the wages at the bottom of the conditional distribution of wages are higher than those at the top in SOEs. No such patterns for the private sector is found. It is suggested the wage mechanism in the private sector is more market-oriented Keywords: uantile regressions; returns to education; wage-experience profile; ownerships (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fec:journl:v:2:y:2007:i:1:p:114-136 Access Statistics for this article Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities is currently edited by LONG Jie More articles in Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities from Higher Education Press |
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