Training human capital and regional economic growth—Base on the perspective of human capital quality

ZHANG Meixing, XIE Junming, LI Minjing

Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9) : 2965-2977.

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Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice ›› 2024, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (9) : 2965-2977. DOI: 10.12011/SETP2023-0834

Training human capital and regional economic growth—Base on the perspective of human capital quality

  • ZHANG Meixing1, XIE Junming2, LI Minjing3
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Based on the human capital investment theory and from the perspective of human capital quality, this paper fully considers the differences in training quality caused by different training investment scales, using panel data of employment training centers in various regions to empirically test the actual effect of training human capital on regional economic growth, and analyzing the heterogeneous impact of training human capital on the eastern, central and western regions, and the impact mechanism of training human capital on regional economic growth. The results show that human capital, taking into account training yield and training quality, has a positive promoting effect on economic growth; as two important forms of human capital investment, both education and training have a promoting effect on regional economic development, and there is a certain degree of substitution effect; training human capital has the greatest impact on economic growth in the central region and the smallest in the west; the mechanism test verifies that training human capital promotes economic growth by promoting technology research and development. In the future, it is necessary to optimize the skill structure of the labor market, improve the quality of human capital, and promote high-quality regional economic development by attaching importance to vocational training, improving skills evaluation, and introducing subsidy policies to guide enterprises to provide skills training.

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training human capital / human capital quality / human capital investment / vocational training

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ZHANG Meixing , XIE Junming , LI Minjing. Training human capital and regional economic growth—Base on the perspective of human capital quality. Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice, 2024, 44(9): 2965-2977 https://doi.org/10.12011/SETP2023-0834

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National Social Science Fund of China (23BTJ015);National Natural Science Foundation of China (72273091, 72303155);Soft Science Research Base of Shanghai Science and Technology Development Fund—Shanghai Science and Technology Statistics and Analysis Research Center Project
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