Human capital dynamics in China: Evidence from a club convergence approach

Mendoza, Octasiano Miguel Valerio; Borsi, Mihály Tamás; Comim, Flávio

doi:10.1016/j.asieco.2022.101441

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“…The experience of other countries in expanding higher education provides a glimpse of the challenges awaiting China. Furthermore, the results in Li, Liu, et al, 2014, Li, Whalley, & Xing, 2014, Valerio Mendoza (2018, Fraumeni et al (2019), Zhang et al (2019), andValerio Mendoza et al (2021) suggest that the evolution of human capital within China over the past decades is strongly related to the supply of higher education institutions. Similarly, the estimates also provide insights into related research on educational inequality and the avoidance of the middle-income trap, since they illustrate which provinces have an insufficient supply of higher education institutions, both in terms of quantity and quality, relative to their respective populations.…”

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Measuring the provincial supply of higher education institutions in China

Borsi

Mendoza

Comim

2022

China Economic Review

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Measuring the provincial supply of higher education institutions in China

Borsi

Mendoza

Comim

2022

China Economic Review

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“…If this is the case, a co-movement of the popularity of intra-provincial migration and intra-provincial inequalities will arise. Although the cause has not yet been confirmed, Zhejiang showed an abnormally divergent path of the human capital growth from 1985 to 2016 due, in part, to its within-province inequality (Valerio Mendoza et al 2022;Wei and Ye 2004). This phenomenon might be a caveat on the imbalance of labour mobility within provinces.…”

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Job Prospects and Labour Mobility in China

Wang-Lu¹,

Mendoza²

2022

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China's structural changes have brought new challenges to its regional employment structure, entailing spatial redistribution of workforce. However, Chinese research on migration decisions involving future outcomes and on city-level bilateral longitudinal determinants is almost non-existent. This paper sheds light on the effects of sector-based job prospects on individual migration decisions across prefecture boundaries. To this end, we created a proxy variable for job prospects, compiled a unique quasi-panel of 66,427 individuals from 283 cities during 1997-2017, expanded the random utility maximisation model of migration by introducing the reference-dependence, derived empirical specifications with theoretical micro-foundations and applied various monadic and dyadic fixed effects to address multilateral resistance to migration. Multilevel logit models and two-step system GMM estimation were adopted for the robustness check. Our primary findings are that a 10% increase in the ratio of sector-based job prospects in cities of destination to cities of origin raises the probability of migration by 1.281-2.185 percentage points, and the effects tend to be stronger when the scale of the ratio is larger. Having a family migration network causes an increase of approximately 6 percentage points in migratory probabilities. Further, labour migrants are more likely to be male, unmarried, younger, or more educated. Our results suggest that the ongoing industrial reform in China influences labour mobility between prefecture-level cities, providing important insights for regional policymakers to prevent brain drain and to attract relevant talent.

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“…Other studies have reached similar conclusions. For example, in an analysis of the evolution of human capital in thirty-one Chinese provinces between 1985 and 2016, Valerio Mendoza et al [20] found that there are two clusters of provinces in China that differ markedly in the level of human capital. The first comprised of a small group of provinces with a high level of human capital, while the second consisted of the vast majority of provinces with a low level of human capital.…”

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Exploring the Role of Socio-Cultural Factors on the Development of Human Capital in Multi-Ethnic Regions

Vlasov,

Polbitsyn,

Olumekor

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Human capital is among the most important factors for sustainable economic growth. However, there remains some debate on the factors promoting or inhibiting its development. This research attempts to put socio-cultural factors at the front of this debate. Using econometric models, we exploratively test the influence of a raft of social and cultural variables on human capital development in multi-ethnic regions of Russia. We found that factors such as marriage, divorce, life expectancy, accessibility to education and healthcare, and attitude towards tourism all influence human capital to varying degrees. Domestic tourism, including museum and theatre visits were particularly impactful. We argue that cultural knowledge and exchange can promote socio-cultural harmony in multi-ethnic regions which can contribute to the region’s human capital development. By exploring the impact of socio-cultural factors, we hope to lead towards a holistic understanding of sustainable human capital development.

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Human capital dynamics in China: Evidence from a club convergence approach

Cited by 15 publications

References 105 publications

Measuring the provincial supply of higher education institutions in China

Measuring the provincial supply of higher education institutions in China

Job Prospects and Labour Mobility in China

Exploring the Role of Socio-Cultural Factors on the Development of Human Capital in Multi-Ethnic Regions

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