Research on Technology Absorptive Capability through FDI——Based on Proxies of Human Capital Flow

Abstract

Abstract:

By expanding the proxy of human capital, this paper focuses on the relationship between the technology absorptive capability and human capital through FDI.The proxies of human capital include the average schooling, returned oversea students rate, the rate of employed by foreign firms and government expense rate in education.The regressions display there are significant coefficients between the economic growth and the human capital through FDI, especially in returnd oversea students rate and the rate of employed by foreign firms.Therefore, China should pay attention to use the spillovers of FDI, to encourage human capital moves from oversea and foreign firms.

Key words: human capital, FDI, absorptive capability

CLC Number:

F830.59

Bin-sheng ZHANG, Hai-yan TANG. Research on Technology Absorptive Capability through FDI——Based on Proxies of Human Capital Flow[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2006, 38(1): 112-117.

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