【主 题】Understanding Trends in Chinese Skill Premiums, 2007-2018
【报告人】张磊（教授，浙江大学经济学院）
【时 间】2024年4月9日周二14:00-15:30
【地 点】高等研究院楼232会议室
【语 言】英文
【摘 要】The dramatic changes in China found both with the expansion of the education system and with the transformation of the economy provide an opportunity to investigate how the labor market rewards skills. This paper estimates the evolution of the labor market returns to cognitive skills and to a college degree in China over the past decade. Between 2007 and 2018, the return to cognitive skills is virtually constant at 10% for full-time workers with at least a high school education, whereas the college premium (relative to high school graduation) drops steeply by more than 20 percentage points. The regional differences in returns are significant and highlight the importance of differential demand factors. The return to a college degree is somewhat higher in economically more developed regions, while the declining trend is most pronounced in the most developed region. Over time, the return to cognitive skills weakly increases in more developed regions and weakly decreases in less developed regions. Using complementary data with a more general measure of cognitive skills, we find overall returns to cognitive skills and a college degree to be comparable with estimates for the more-developed OECD countries.
【报告人简介】张磊，浙江大学经济学院教授、博士生导师。于北京大学获得经济学学士和硕士学位，美国斯坦福大学（Stanford University）获得经济学博士学位。主要研究兴趣包括公共经济学、教育经济学。学术论文发表在Economic Journal, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 和《经济研究》, 《经济学季刊》等国内外一流学术期刊上。获得教育部第8届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖（2019）。
