Recently, IQDS’s article “English Human Capital and Employees’ Wage: Empirical evidence from 2015 China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES)”, written by Cheng Hong and Liu Xing, was published in Journal of Beijing Normal University (Social Science Edition), an important journal of CSSCI.
Based on latest, first-hand from China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) in 2015, this paper controls the observable and unobservable factors at a firm level, by using multiple methods to measure to measure the effect of English human capital on hourly wage of employees. With OLS, IV and PSM, it empirically identifies the significantly positive causal effect of English comprehensive ability, English listening and speaking and English reading is 14.6%-18.6%, 20.5%-27.9% and 25.9%-35.8%, higher than hourly wage of those without such abilities. It is proposed to increase investment in vocational training of business English, balance English for General Purpose and English for Special Purpose in reform of English education and encourage institutes of higher education to develop ESP which pays more attention to instrumental application of English language.