Impact of urban core areas on county-level human capital in China
Shaping modern human resources and supporting Chinese modernization with high-quality population development is a necessary requirement for promoting high-quality economic development.This article analyzes the spatio-temporal pattern and evolution characteristics of China's total human capital development at the district and county levels,and constructs a bilateral stochastic frontier model to measure the bilateral impact and mechanism of urban core areas on county-level human capital.The research shows that:(1)From 2000 to 2020,China's county(city)human capital continuously increased,but the growth rate slowed down.(2)Overall,urban core areas had a significant driving effect on the improvement of county-level human capital,and the main paths were industrial spillovers and innovation spillovers.(3)The impact of urban core areas on county-level human capital changed from"siphon"to"spillover",raising the actual total human capital of the county from 0.137%below the frontier level in 2000 to 2.657%above the frontier level in 2020,and there was still room for growth in terms of temporal trend.(4)The impact of urban core areas on county-level human capital showed significant spatial differences.In 2020,the development of core areas in first-tier and second-tier cities resulted in 39.110%and 12.966%of county-level actual human capital higher than the frontier level,while the corresponding figure for fourth-tier cities was only 0.006%.(5)There is a significant negative correlation between the net effect of urban core areas on the improvement of county-level human capital and geographical and temporal distance,with the inflection point from positive to negative being around 100 kilometers and 100 minutes.
urban core areacounty economytotal human capitalbilateral stochastic frontier modelChina
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