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Wang, Geng; Wang, Zhonghan – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
In the Reform Era, the Chinese Government has placed great emphasis on the role of education in ensuring the economic success of individuals and of the country as a whole. While vocational and academic post-secondary qualifications are officially set at the same level, vocational education is positioned at the bottom of the educational hierarchy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Vocational Education, Academic Education
Ding, Yanqing; Li, Wei; Li, Xin; Wu, Yinduo; Yang, Jin; Ye, Xiaoyang – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Despite the growing evidence of informational interventions on college and major choices, we know little about how such light-touch interventions affect the gender gap in STEM majors. Linking survey data to administrative records of Chinese college applicants, we conducted a large-scale randomized experiment to examine the STEM gender gap in the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Gender Differences, College Students
Jia, Ruixue; Li, Hongbin – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
A burgeoning literature has documented the importance of elite colleges. Yet, little is known about access to elite education and its labor market implications in China, a country that produces one in every five college graduates in the world. College admission in China is governed by a single exam--the national college entrance exam, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Selective Admission, College Admission
Feng, Yun – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation studies the effects of China's higher education expansion reform on workers' labor market outcomes. In Chapter 1, I investigate how China's higher education expansion reform affects young workers' labor market outcomes. Using data from the 2005 China Population Survey, I estimate the effects of the reform using a diff-in-diff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Higher Education, Educational Development
Zhang, Qian – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Internships are a vital component of vocational education systems. The aim of this study is to understand whether internship programs at vocational schools are correlated with the long-run wages of students. To analyze this, I conduct three sets of analyses using longitudinal survey data from 2013 to 2014 on more than 12,000 vocational students in…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Vocational Education, Wages, Correlation
Chen, Dandan; Guan, Jingning – Online Submission, 2016
The research question for this study is how education level, gender, and social network affect migrant workers' starting income for their first job in China's urban cities. Our objective is to reveal the interplay of education level, gender, and social network in determining migrant workers' income, which are to the core of the current academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Gender Differences, Social Networks
Sen Zhou – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In this dissertation, I investigate three barriers that students in China face when pursuing higher education: the unequal distribution of college enrollment quotas, the complexity of the college application process and financial constraints. These barriers exist worldwide, but the unique characteristics of the Chinese higher education system make…
Descriptors: College Students, Access to Education, Equal Education, College Applicants
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan – Education Economics, 2014
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski [1996. Eliciting student expectations of the return to schooling. "Journal of Human Resources" 31, no. 1: 1-26] to solicit anticipated wage distributions for continuing to a master degree or going to work after completing the bachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on…
Descriptors: Wages, Expectation, Student Costs, Academic Persistence
Rose, Philip – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2015
Internship participation has undergone rapid expansion over the last three decades, to the point where today many interns and host organizations regard internships as the preferred pathway into entry-level professional positions. However, organizational research has largely neglected the investigation of internships as an employment context, thus…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Program Effectiveness, Wages, Supervisors
Po, Yang – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
Chinese college graduates have faced increasing labor market competition since the expansion of tertiary education. Given rigid market demand, graduates with realistic earnings expectations may experience a more efficient job search. Using the 2008 MYCOS College Graduate Employment Survey, this study finds that a 1000 yuan reduction in a…
Descriptors: Wages, Job Search Methods, Labor Market, College Graduates
Yu, Li – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study aims to explore the impact of college quality on early labor market outcomes in China, including the fresh college graduates' initial employment status and starting wages for students who graduated in 2011. The main data source is the College Student Labor Market (CSLM) survey conducted by Tsinghua University. Distinguished from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Higher Education, College Graduates
Zhang, Xuemin – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
Return on personal investment is an important factor affecting the decision to invest in education. This article analyzes the personal education costs of no-fee preservice students, estimates and forecasts the return on their personal education investment, and compares the costs and benefits of for-fee preservice students and nonteaching students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Outcomes of Education
Sinha Mukherjee, Sucharita – Gender and Education, 2015
This paper attempts to explore the connections between expanding female education and the participation of women in paid employment in Japan, China and India, three of Asia's largest economies. Analysis based on existing data and literature shows that despite the large expansion in educational access in these countries in the last half century,…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Females, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
Lan, Xiaohuan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
About 75% of U.S.-trained, non-citizen PhDs in science and engineering work in the U.S. after graduation, and 54% of those who stay take postdoctoral positions. The probability of postdoctoral participation is substantially higher for temporary visa holders than for permanent visa holders because of visa-related restrictions in the U.S. labor…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Postdoctoral Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
FengLiang, Li; Xiaohao, Ding; Morgan, W. John – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
In order to test two competitive theories, human capital theory and screening hypothesis, this article investigates the effects of minor, class rank and matched job on the starting wages of graduates using data sources from a nation-wide survey of university graduates in China undertaken in 2003 by the Graduate School of Education, Peking…
Descriptors: Wages, Higher Education, Human Capital, Class Rank
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