Learned to Use or Learned not to Use?- An Application of the Wiles Test on Graduates of China's Newly-upgraded Universities

Xiaowen Zhu, Zhiwen Zhu
2013 International Journal of Education and Management Engineering  
The human capital hypothesis and the screening hypothesis were commonly used to explain the positive effect of education level on individual incomes in the field of education economics. Using graduates of the newlyupgraded universities of China as the sample, this paper tested the two contending hypothesis. The results were in favor of the human capital hypothesis, which indicated higher education was rather a production means than merely a signal of productivity for graduates of these universities.
doi:10.5815/ijeme.2013.01.01 fatcat:76t32rnjdrb5foj4rbodqbxrny