Influence of skill relatedness on the location choice of heterogeneous labor force in Chinese prefecture-level cities.

ABSTRACT: High-quality regional development should be promoted by facilitating inter-regional mobility of heterogeneous labor force to optimize its spatial allocation. This study incorporates skill relatedness into spatial categorization and selection effects, and explores how skill-relatedness affects the location choice of heterogeneous labor force. To do so, we use labor force migration data and employee data by occupation subcategory from the 2000 National Population Census and 2015 National Population Sample Survey. The empirical evidence provides three major findings. First, there are significant regional differences in labor migration rates by the occupational group between cities in China, and the trend is increasing. Regional concentration of location choice is increasing and six significan

SUBMITTER: Zhou X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10449200 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature