| By: |
Glewwe, Paul;
Huang, Qiuqiong;
Park, Albert |
| Abstract: |
The objective of this paper is to examine whether noncognitive skills explain
differences in employment status and hourly wages even after controlling for
age, experience, schooling and cognitive skills. Of particular interest is to
examine the relative magnitudes of the impacts of the cognitive and
noncognitive skills on these labor market outcomes. Data used in this paper
come from the Gansu Survey of Children and Families (GSCF), which followed a
random sample of 2,000 children in rural areas of Gansu Province who were 9-12
years old in the year 2000. Three waves of surveys were completed in 2000,
2004, and 2007-2009. The GSCF is the first large-scale data collection on
child and adolescent cognitive and noncognitive skills in rural China. |
| Keywords: |
cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, years of schooling, wage, Gansu, China, International Development, Labor and Human Capital, |
| Date: |
2011 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aaea11:103407&r=cna |