Agglomeration of human capital: Evidence from city choice of online job seekers in China

Su, Yu; Hua, Yue; Deng, Lanfang

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2020.103621

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“…Generally speaking, city-level economic factors are the most important factors to attract labor mobility, such as wage level, unemployment rate and housing price level [3]. In recent years, the role of human capital externalities has been gradually attached importance [2,4,5]. Social factors at the urban level are also important factors in labor mobility.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, Zhang et al (2019) discussed the association between the Hukou constraint and labor force return migration behaviors [22]. Su et al (2021) documented the influence of human capital agglomeration on city choice of high-skilled workers [2]. Therefore, to better understand the trends in migration in the job-changing context and accurately estimate the different economic and social impacts of them, we utilize a newly obtained online-resume data incorporating origin city, destination city, industry, and occupation information.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Referring to some previous literature, we use GDP per capita, average annual wage, population size, and the unemployment rate to capture the city-level economic situation. Moreover, we also adopt the city population's average years of education to measure the cities' human capital level (Su et al, 2021) [2]. The city's industrial structures directly related to the job opportunities are calculated by the employment share of the secondary and tertiary industries.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Besides, we also use the number of hospital beds per capita to account for public services. Further, the FDI-to-GDP ratio is used to reflect cities' levels of openness, as Su et al (2021) and Florida et al (2012) illustrated that the milieu of openness played a significant role in shaping regional talent distribution [2,30]. The other city-level characteristics mainly include the economic status, human capital level, unemployment rate, average wage, industrial structures, availability of public amenities, and environment situation, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The main results stay robust to include a rich set of control variables and using the historical measures of ecological environment as alternative measurements for cities' environment status. Due to the data limitation, to the best of our knowledge, there are still scarce studies to examine the migration determination at the city level for China, except for [2]. Second, by combining individual-level micro-big data from online resumes with city level data, we obtain credible information on personal attributes and locational preference of job seekers.…”

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Determinants of Workplace Choice: How Important Is the City’s Ecological Environment in Attracting Jobseekers in China

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People’s demands for a better environment have become increasingly strong, and the construction of ecological civilization has risen to the national level of strategic decision making. This paper studies the relationship between city ecological environment and labor mobility decision-making from the micro-individual perspective by matching the latest online resumes micro-big data with the ecological environment index data of 279 cities in China. By estimating a conditional logit model, we find that job seekers are more willing to move to the city with better ecological environment during the job transaction process. The heterogeneity results suggest that the higher the education level and the older the age is, the more sensitive the female are to the city’ ecological environment when switching the workplace. Combined with empirical conclusions, this paper argues that the government in China can open a new way in the competition of labor resources through urban ecological civilization construction and reserve high-quality “fuel” for accelerating economic transformation and achieving high-quality development.

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Locational preferences of high‐level overseas talent returning to China: Evidence from microdata analysis

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While Chinese national and local governments have made every effort to attract high-level overseas talent, limited scholarly attention has been paid to their decision of where to stay in China. Using resume data of 3372 individuals involved in the "Thousand Talent Program", this study makes the first attempt to identify both regional and personal factors that affect locational choices of overseas talent in China. Descriptive results show that returned talent are unevenly distributed and are mostly concentrated in a few coastal provinces. Results from conditional logit models show that both academic career prospects and (natural and man-made) amenities play an important role in shaping overseas talent's choices of where to work, but regional prosperity exerts no effect. Alumni social networks, scientific collaboration networks, and educational trajectories are found to greatly influence their locational choices. Results from mixed models suggest that the effect of these provincial factors may vary by age, time spent abroad, the type of talent, the location of undergraduate study, and the country of stay before return. This study enhances our knowledge of the international return migration of the highly skilled by focusing on state-led academic migration and by challenging the conventional wisdom that high-level global talent are rootless and cosmopolitan elites with similar locational preferences.

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Agglomeration of human capital: Evidence from city choice of online job seekers in China

Cited by 18 publications

References 31 publications

Determinants of Workplace Choice: How Important Is the City’s Ecological Environment in Attracting Jobseekers in China

Determinants of Workplace Choice: How Important Is the City’s Ecological Environment in Attracting Jobseekers in China

Locational preferences of high‐level overseas talent returning to China: Evidence from microdata analysis

Political and racial neighborhood sorting: How is it changing?

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