TY - JOUR
T1 - Research on the economic effect of employment structure change in heterogeneous regions
T2 - evidence from resource-based cities in China
AU - Ren, Qiushuang
AU - Gu, Guofeng
AU - Zhou, Yinan
AU - Zhang, Zhiyu
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Chinese National Funding of Social Sciences (16BJL032). We are grateful to the editor and the anonymous reviewers for constructive comments. All remaining errors are our own.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Report on the Work of the Chinese Government in 2021 emphasised that stable employment is the foundation of national development. Therefore, adjustment of the employment structure is one of the main routes for sustainable development of resource-based cities. However, the impact of employment structure on sustained economic growth, particularly in heterogeneous regions, has not yet been determined. This study analyses China’s employment structure’s spatial evolution, using panel data from 2004 to 2018 of 115 prefecture-level resource-based cities. It explores the driving factors and spatial effects of employment structure changes on economic growth through an extended two-sector economic growth model and spatial econometric model, and proposes solutions for heterogeneous regions. The results show that the labour productivity of the employed population in the secondary industry is the most important factor affecting economic growth, but the spatial effects of employment structure adjustment on economic growth are different in heterogeneous regions. They further reveal that improving the productivity of the employed population in the secondary industry and building an industrial system according to regional advantages are the top priorities for developing the sustainable economy of resource-based cities.
AB - The Report on the Work of the Chinese Government in 2021 emphasised that stable employment is the foundation of national development. Therefore, adjustment of the employment structure is one of the main routes for sustainable development of resource-based cities. However, the impact of employment structure on sustained economic growth, particularly in heterogeneous regions, has not yet been determined. This study analyses China’s employment structure’s spatial evolution, using panel data from 2004 to 2018 of 115 prefecture-level resource-based cities. It explores the driving factors and spatial effects of employment structure changes on economic growth through an extended two-sector economic growth model and spatial econometric model, and proposes solutions for heterogeneous regions. The results show that the labour productivity of the employed population in the secondary industry is the most important factor affecting economic growth, but the spatial effects of employment structure adjustment on economic growth are different in heterogeneous regions. They further reveal that improving the productivity of the employed population in the secondary industry and building an industrial system according to regional advantages are the top priorities for developing the sustainable economy of resource-based cities.
KW - China
KW - Employment structure
KW - economic growth
KW - heterogeneous regions
KW - spatial effects
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126703411&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1331677X.2022.2048199
DO - 10.1080/1331677X.2022.2048199
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126703411
SN - 1331-677X
VL - 35
SP - 6364
EP - 6384
JO - Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja
JF - Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja
IS - 1
ER -
