The threshold effect of high‐level human capital investment on China's urban‐rural income gap

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yitao Jiang ◽  
Xiaojun Shi ◽  
Shunming Zhang ◽  
Jingjing Ji
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Chao ◽  
Xiaopeng Tan

The overall relation of urban-rural income inequality to economic growth is complex. As the widening income gap between urban and rural areas, the rural residents are unwilling and unable to invest in human capital, which restricts China’s long-term economic growth. By empirically analyzing Chinese provincial panel data from 1995 to 2012, we find the material capital investment and the human capital investment have highly significantly positive coefficients for explaining economic growth, however, the urban-rural income disparity is significantly negative for the human capital investment, moreover, the change shows that there is a negative influence of urban-rural income disparity on the economic growth.


Author(s):  
Fitri Nurmahmudah ◽  
Eka Cahya Sari Putra

The study describes the evaluation results concerning the improvement of the education levels among the employees of a university in Indonesia by making an investment in education. The study is aimed at investigating the employees’ productivity and performance after making an investment in education. This study with evaluation method using discrepancy model. The sample of the study consisted of 255  non-academic university employees. Data were collected by way of a questionnaire on Guttmann scale. The questionnaire was validated by using logical and empirical validation by a Pearson correlation technique and reliability by KR-20 technique. The data analysis with descriptive. To calculate the capital human investment, the human capital investment formula was used for finding payback period, benefit/cost ration, return-on-investment, net-present-value, and internal-rate-of-return. The results of the study showed that the employees who made human capital investment in education were able to increase their productivity and performance as their insights, knowledge, and skills improved. The research findings were able to give insights to leaders in high-level institutions or government institutions that investing in education is truly essential, needs more attention, and needs to be done by employees.


2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 01028
Author(s):  
Mingfei Ding ◽  
Jinsong Pei

With the development of China’s economic level and transportation, China’s population migration scale is constantly enhanced, population migration investment way of human capital investment, has a greater impact on the income level of residents. This paper analyzes the mechanism of population migration’s influence on the income gap and research achievements of predecessors, then on the basis of the eight regional division, has analyzed china area ask migration scale and the present situation of the income gap, and finally by constructing panel data model, the empirical test population migration’s influence on regional smell of resident’s income gap. Finally, it is found that investment in population migration has a long-term positive effect on the income gap.


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