Economic transition, higher education and worker productivity in China

• Main Authors: FLEISHER, Belton, YU, Yifan, LI, Haizheng, KIM, Seonghoon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Productivity; Returns to education; Marginal product; Firm; China; Transition; Asian Studies; Education; Growth and Development; Labor Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2006; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3005/viewcontent/Economic_transition_higher_education_and_worker_productivity_in.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We investigate the role of education on worker productivity and firms' total factor productivity using a panel of firm-level data from China. We estimate the returns to education by calculating the marginal productivity of workers of different education levels based on estimates of the firm-lev...