This paper analyzes the theoretical mechanism of the influence of local quality on urban innovation from the perspective of heterogeneous labor agglomeration, and systematically identifies the influence of local quality and heterogeneous labor agglomeration on urban innovation based on the data of 284 cities above prefecture level in China from 2006 to 2020. It is found that the artificial local quality has a significant positive impact on urban innovation, and with the continuous development of economy, the impact effect is gradually enhanced; High-skilled labor force agglomeration and ordinary labor force agglomeration are both important channels for the artificial local quality to affect urban innovation, and the intermediary effect caused by ordinary labor force agglomeration is stronger; There are regional heterogeneity in the influence and mechanism of artificial local quality on urban innovation. Among the four types of cities, such as the central and western regions, high administrative level, resource-based cities and low natural local quality, artificial local quality has a stronger effect on urban innovation. “Crowding effect”, skill mismatch, the flow of highly skilled labor to unproductive sectors, and the perception difference of heterogeneous labor are all important reasons for the heterogeneity of the mechanism of artificial local quality on urban innovation.
LI Na
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ZHAO Kang-jie
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JING Pu-qiu
. The impact of local quality on urban innovation from the perspective of heterogeneous labor agglomeration[J]. Urban Problems, 2024
, 346(5)
: 82
-91
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DOI: 10.13239/j.bjsshkxy.cswt.240513
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