Abstract:

Based on relevant data in China's fifth census and analyses of the basic tendency of employment migration and the differential effect of human resources capital in the Yangtze metropolitan delta, this paper concludes that the employment migration on the whole has a certain promotive effect on the Yangtze-delta manpower capital, but the effects of such capital in various cities reflected in the migration within the delta and the migration from outside of the delta are considerably different from one another. As a result, the manpower capital advantage in the delta should be embodied not only in its attraction for varied talents at home and abroad, but also in its promotion of the manpower capital level of all laborers, especially those non-natives, in the delta.

Key words: the Yangtze Delta, employment migration, differential effect of manpower capital