Asymmetric Effects of Talent-based Policies:Interregional Competition and Cooperation Based on Labor Allocation
This study investigates the asymmetric spatial spillover effects of talent introduction policies on labor force allocation.The talent introduction policies in a region are spatially correlated with labor force allocation in neighboring regions,demonstrating spatial demonstration,transmission,and siphon effects on the allocation of human capital.Using a dataset covering 285 cities over 16 years,three major categories of spatial weight matrices,comprising a total of 11 types,were constructed to empirically analyze the impact of talent policies on human capital misallocation.Controlling for other factors,a 1%increase in the intensity of talent introduction policies in a region directly improves human capital misallocation by 0.005 units.Due to spatial spillover effects,competition and cooperation among labor forces in neighboring regions further indirectly improve the human capital allocation efficiency in the region by 0.277 units.There is significant competition in human capital resource allocation between cities of the same tier,with higher-tier cities experiencing more intense competition.The top-down spatial spillover effect is primarily observed in fourth-and fifth-tier cities,where these cities,as recipients of the spatial spillover effects of talent introduction policies,show significant complementary effects with first-,second-,and third-tier cities,which are the sources of these policies.In the bottom-up spatial spillover effect,third-tier cities,as the source of policy spillover effects,are significantly impacted by the policy siphon effect from first-and second-tier cities.
Talent-based PolicyHuman Capital MismatchTime-varying Nested MatrixSpatial Autocorrelation Model