The impact of education on earnings in China - A cross-provincial time series analysis of knowledge capital divergence
The impact of education on earnings in China is primarily a quantitive analysis describing how divergence between Chinese provinces has grown in the period 1994 to 2004. The thesis is constructed around Mincerian thoughts on returns to schooling and endogenous growth theory emphasizing the crucial importance of government expenditure on knowledge capital for sustained growth. It further aims to an