A Comparative Study Of Teachers And Civil Servants’ Returns To Education

What’s the degree of returns to education between public and private sectors or between different groups within the public sectors in China? Does it exist institutional discrimination in returns to education? If it does, then how much the difference is? After reading large number of domestic and international literature on returns to education, I figured out that many scholars have studied the returns to education of China, but few articles involves in comparison of returns to education between teachers and civil servants. Therefore, based on micro data related topics for teachers and civil servants, we have discussed returns to education by empirical analysis, to explore the differences in the returns to education between civil servants and teachers, as well as the basic countermeasures to resolve differences.The main conclusions of this study are the following:(1) teachers and civil servants generally are with high level of education, the difference is not great, but the proportion of teachers with undergraduate degree and far are greater than civil service departments;(2) civil servants’average wage are slightly higher than teachers, education for teachers and civil servants wage income effect is positive, but on different degrees;(3) teachers and civil servants returns to education are not high, the rate for teachers return is0.9%,for civil servants, it turns out to be2.2%, and the gap is relatively large;(4) analysis of returns to different academic education showed that wages of teachers and civil servants are inclined to increase with the increases in education levels and incremental, highly educated people tends to get higher wages;(5) quantile regression results showed that teachers and civil servants have their own rate of returns on education trends in the sub-sites, returns to education for teachers are significantly lower than the civil servants.