Title: Study on Urbanization and Human Capital:Based on Unbalanced Panel Data of China's 261 Prefecture-level Cities
Abstract: There is a significant relationship between urbanization and human capital,but impact and the extent of the effect of different variables,which measuring China's human capital,appear significant differences,and different regions due to resource endowment unbalance is also different. Using unbalanced panel data on 261 prefecture-level cities in China from 2004 to 2010,this paper studies empirically urbanization and human capital,and distinguishes conditions among the eastern,central and western areas. The results shows that, nationwide,human capital investment has a positive role in promoting urbanization, population growth and population density has exceeded the critical value,negative externalities has emerged,the secondary industry is still the major industry which drives the formation and expansion of the city;eastern region urbanization has the greatest demand for talent,city type has no significant effect. High education investment in central and middle education investment in western have significant positive effect on urbanization respectively.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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