Arbeitspapier

Human Resources in China: The Birth Quota, Returns to Schooling, and Migration

Rural elderly have 40% of the income of those in urban areas, spend a larger share of their income on food, are in worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The birth quota since 1980 has particularly restricted the childbearing of rural less educated women, who now faceretirement with fewer children for support. Inequality in China is also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially beyond secondary school. Government restrictions on rural-urban migration reduces national efficiency, adds to the urban-rural wage gap, and increases inequality.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Center Discussion Paper ; No. 855

Classification
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
Subject
Human Capital Returns
Rural-Urban Migration
Elderly Poverty
China
Bevölkerungswachstum
Bevölkerungspolitik
Bildungsinvestition
Bildungsertrag
Ländlicher Arbeitsmarkt
Städtischer Arbeitsmarkt
Stadt-Land-Beziehung
Landflucht
Regionale Lohnstruktur
Alte Menschen
China
Fertilität

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Schultz, T. Paul
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Yale University, Economic Growth Center
(where)
New Haven, CT
(when)
2003

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Schultz, T. Paul
  • Yale University, Economic Growth Center

Time of origin

  • 2003

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