Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2018, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 42-50+166.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2018.05.004

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How Noncognitive Development Affects Chinese Undergraduates' First Job Salary?

ZHU Hong, ZHANG Yuqing   

  1. Graduate School of Education/Institute of Education and Economics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • Online:2018-09-20 Published:2018-09-14

Abstract: In recent years, noncognitive development has played a more important role in research studies on economics of education. In China there is more and more empirical research regarding how noncognitive development affects individual's salaries. Based on a Chinese National Undergraduate Survey conducted by Graduate School of Education, Peking University, this study examines relations between noncognitive development and salaries of college students' first job. The authors find that both cognitive and noncognitive development play significant roles in college students' first job salaries, but the effects of noncognitive development were more remarkable.

Key words: Noncognitive development, undergraduate job-seeking, salary, human capital