Influence of the Market Supply of Construction Land on the Misallocation of Labor Resources: Empirical Evidence from China

Changjun Jiang and Jintao Li ()
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Changjun Jiang: College of Public Administration, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Jintao Li: Institute of Governance, Shandong University, Qingdao 266200, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-18

Abstract: Economic development often leads to the misallocation of labor resources, so reforming the way land is allocated is important for developing a strategy to address the insufficient supply and oversupply of labor in China. This paper uses panel regression analysis to quantitatively measure the effect of the market supply of construction land (MSCL) on labor resources misallocation (LMIS). The results show that LMIS decreased year-by-year during the study period. The development of the MSCL can effectively reduce LMIS. The negative effect of the MSCL in the central region is greater than that in the eastern region, and the negative effect in the western region is the smallest. There is a single-threshold effect on the impact of the MSCL on LMIS. Specifically, when the MSCL is less than 18,045 hectares, the impact effect is −0.324, and when the MSCL is higher than 18,045 hectares, the effect is not significant. Moreover, the impact of the MSCL on LMIS has a spatial spillover effect, which is greater than the direct effect. Labor resources tend to migrate to economically developed areas, not just adjacent areas. These conclusions are of great significance for reducing LMIS from the perspective of land system reform in China.

Keywords: market supply of construction land; labor resources misallocation; fixed-effect regression; threshold effect; spillover effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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