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Spatial segregation and human capital of impoverished areas in China: Implications for livelihood resilience building

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  • Yuheng Li

    (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

  • Haowen Jia

    (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China)

  • Wei Xiao

    (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China)

  • Alexey S. Naumov

    (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
    HSE University, Moscow, Russia)

Abstract

Improving people's livelihood resilience against risks and challenges plays an important role in consolidating the achievements of poverty reduction. The paper uses 64 poverty-stricken counties in China's Sichuan province as the study area and explores the link between spatial segregation and human capital. The results show that the proximity (spatial segregation) is significantly and negatively associated with people's educational attainment and their acquisition of non-farming employment. Residents in villages which are distant from the county center tend to obtain less educational opportunities and are less likely to engage in non-farming jobs than those who are close to the county center. The mediating effect analysis indicates that remoteness mainly reduces the propensity of getting non-farming jobs by reducing the human capital of rural residents. Further analysis shows that the association between proximity, human capital and the probability of acquiring non-farming work is higher in areas with lower economic level and less developed transportation infrastructure. Policy implications for improving people's livelihood resilience in impoverished areas are proposed in the paper.

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  • Yuheng Li & Haowen Jia & Wei Xiao & Alexey S. Naumov, 2023. "Spatial segregation and human capital of impoverished areas in China: Implications for livelihood resilience building," Russian Journal of Economics, ARPHA Platform, vol. 9(4), pages 424-439, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:arh:jrujec:v:9:y:2023:i:4:p:424-439
    DOI: 10.32609/j.ruje.9.108719
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    spatial segregation human capital rural poverty livelihood resilience China;

    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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