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

Autor: Zhou X; Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation Hubei province, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.; College of Urban and Environmental Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China., Ao R; Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation Hubei province, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.; College of Urban and Environmental Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China., Aihemaitijiang Y; Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation Hubei province, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.; College of Urban and Environmental Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China., Chen J; Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation Hubei province, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.; College of Urban and Environmental Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China., Tang H; Key Laboratory for Geographical Process Analysis & Simulation Hubei province, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.; College of Urban and Environmental Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.; School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Hunan City University, Yiyang, Hunan, China.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Aug 24; Vol. 18 (8), pp. e0289803. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 24 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289803
Abstrakt: 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 significant agglomerations are formed. Second, skill relatedness positively affects the location choice of the heterogeneous labor force in Chinese cities. When cities' skill-relatedness is more robust, influence on labor location choice is more remarkable. In cities with high-size classes, the effect of high-skill relatedness on labor location choice is higher. Third, labor force with solid skill relatedness with regional employment moves to the location owing to the spatial sorting effect. Labor force without skill relatedness or weak relatedness moves out or does not move to the location owing to the spatial selection effect.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Zhou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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