How does education at all levels influence productivity growth? Evidence from the Chinese provinces

Ping Hua (p.hua@u-clermont1.fr)
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Ping Hua: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS)

No 200515, Working Papers from CERDI

Abstract: This article investigates the different effects that primary education, secondary education and university education exert on total factor productivity growth and its two components. Firstly, we give the theoretical arguments explaining these effects. Then, for the twenty-nine Chinese provinces we calculate DEA Malmquist indices of productivity growth for the period from 1993 to 2001. Finally we present a panel econometric model of productivity growth. We show that university education has a favourable effect both on efficiency growth and technical progress, while primary education and secondary education have an unfavourable one on efficiency growth. Moreover, the favorable effect of university education on efficiency change is through the reallocation of university-educated workers into the more efficient non-state sector.

Pages: 28
Date: 2005
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