Research on the Correlation between Human Capital Investment and Urban-Rural Employment in China

Author: Hou Fengqu
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Based on rigorous data collection and investigation, this book employs human capital theory and econometric models to assess China's human capital stock, estimates the impact of human capital investment on economic growth, discusses methods for estimating the personal and social returns to human capital investment, estimates the returns to labor human capital by urban and rural areas, analyzes the scale of surplus rural labor and the influence of human capital status on the employment choices of rural laborers, and elaborates on the asymmetric characteristics of human capital investment returns between urban and rural areas and its impact on employment.