Citation
Xing, Chunbing (2007). Wage Determination and Returns to Education in Different Ownerships of China: Evidence from Quantile Regressions. Frontiers of Economics in China, 2, 114-36.Abstract
In this paper, we use the data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) to estimate the wage determination of 1991, 1993, and 1997. The previous results from OLS using CHNS indicate that, the returns to education in terms of wages are extremely low, especially in rural areas (see for example: Wei, 2004; Chen and Xing, 2004). In this paper, however, we estimate the return rates of human capital at different percentiles of the conditional income distribution for both rural and urban areas.