The Impact Of Heterogeneous Human Capital On Regional Green Total Factor Productivity

Since the reform and opening up,China’s economy has continued to grow rapidly.The traditional development mode of resource and labor input driving economic growth is no longer sustainable,and the economic model needs to be transformed to green development.Green Total Factor Productivity is an economic evaluation index which can take resource consumption and environmental pollution into consideration and has become the key to promote the development of green economy.Human capital is the endogenous driving force that promotes the growth of Green Total Factor Productivity,which is closely related to the green transformation of economic development.Some studies have discussed that the total amount of human capital can promote the improvement of Green Total Factor Productivity,but these studies ignore the heterogeneous impact of heterogeneous human capital.How to optimize heterogeneous human capital structure to promote the current green economic growth has important theoretical and practical significance.This paper focuses on educational human capital and divides it into academic education and non-academic education human capital.Academic education can be divided into average human capital stock,primary,secondary and tertiary human capital according to the educational level of labor force.Non-academic education is characterized by technical training,vocational training and employment training.Based on China’s provincial panel data from 2000 to 2018,the Super-SBM-ML model was used to evaluate Green Total Factor Productivity.By spatial autocorrelation and spatial aggregation test prove that Green Total Factor Productivity and homogeneous human capital variables with spatial relevance,and Spatial Dubin Model is used to estimate the relationship between them,based on the interaction model,to explore the impact of heterogeneous human capital on Green Total Factor Productivity through technological progress,industrial upgrading,knowledge spillover and environmental regulation.The empirical results show that: 1.The direct impact of heterogeneous human capital on Green Total Factor Productivity is different.Part of human capital will promote local Green Total Factor Productivity,such as tertiary human capital,and part will inhibit it,such as primary human capital.This suggests that local governments should optimize their human capital structure to promote green development.2.Heterogeneous human capital has a spatial spillover effect on Green Total Factor Productivity,but the spatial spillover effect of some human capital is not significant.Indicating that human capital between local circulation channel is not smooth,so it is necessary to improve local talent policies,strengthen regional cooperation and development,to better play to the human capital bonus,in turn,promote green economy rapid development.3.Heterogeneous human capital moderates the direct impact of technological progress,knowledge spillover,industrial upgrading and environmental regulation on Green Total Factor Productivity.To accelerate technological progress and industrial structure upgrading,it is necessary to match high-level human capital.Knowledge spillover needs human capital with strong diffusion and absorption capacity to match it.The path of environmental regulation needs to constantly improve the human capital stock and high level of human capital proportion structure.Finally,based on the results of empirical research and combined with the current situation of China’s economy,this paper puts forward some policy suggestions,such as opening up the channel of human capital transformation,promoting regional talent flow,strengthening regional coordinated development and building high-level talent ecology.