关键词: 学历, 工资, 性别

Abstract: With the rapid development of the education, especially the higher education, highly educated personnel training scale in our country presents the expansion of the trend presented, thus it has become a more and more concerned issue to the public that whether the education plays a role for workers. The paper firstly from the perspective of profit maximization analyses the difference of enterprise’ wage-payment wills to workers with various education background, which will serve as the theory support to study the influence of the education degree to worker wages. And next we use China's industrial economic census data of 2004 to test the difference of the education degree to the average wage of workers by industry, as well as the gender wage. The conclusions are as follows: (1) high school education, college degree and bachelor degree for worker wages have a positive and stable influence and this influence will be enhanced gradually, but the effect of postgraduate degrees for worker wages is difficult to determine; (2) By using education natural endowments method to measure the average degrees of enterprises，the results show that in the condition of the unchanged average degrees, there is a possible negative relationship between women employees percentage of firms and per capita wage, and the positive influence of employee average degree on per capita salary may decrease with the female employee rate increasing.

Key words: Education Degree, Wage, Gender