日语能力对中国城市高学历人群工资收入的影响研究——基于Global Career Survey 2012调查上海数据的实证分析

How the Japanese Language Proficiency Impacts the Salaries of the Better Educated——An empirical study based on data for Shanghai from Global Career Survey 2012

文章利用日本Global Career Survey 2012的微观数据,采用多元线性回归和分位数回归分析法考察了日语能力对我国高学历人群收入的影响。研究发现,总体上,日语能力对以上海为代表的城市高学历人群工资收入具有显著的正向影响;同时,日语能力对个体工资收入的影响在不同性别、职业、专业以及不同收入的人群之间存在显著差异。实证研究结果有助于加深人们对我国日语教育发挥的工具价值及社会贡献的理解,为日语能力在我国劳动力市场上的表现提供了经验证据,一定程度上为外语教育政策特别是日语教育政策的改革和调整提供了经验支持和参考。

Based on the micro data from the Global Career Survey,2012,this paper,adopting the methods of multiple linear regression and quantile regression,aims to explore how the Japanese language proficiency impacts the salaries of the Chinese urban dwellers receiving higher levels of education.On the whole,obvious positive eifects of better levels of Japanese proficiency can be seen on the earnings of higher degree holders in Shanghai and cities alike across China.Meanwhile,the impacts differ widely across participants,according to their genders,majors,professions,and income groups.These presented results from this study will help to increase understanding of the instrumental values and social functions of teaching Japanese as foreign language in China;to offer empirical evidence for the link between Japanese language proficiency and labor market performance of China’s urban population with higher levels of education;and to provide empirical support for reforms in foreign language teaching policies,specifically for the reforms and adjustment in Japanese language education policies.