人力资本推动中国加工贸易升级了吗?
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  • 英文篇名:Does Human Capital Promote Upgrading of Chinese Processing Trade?
  • 作者:毛其淋
  • 英文作者:MAO Qilin;School of Economics, Nankai University;
  • 关键词:人力资本 ; 加工贸易升级 ; 高等教育改革
  • 英文关键词:Human Capital;;Processing Trade Upgrading;;Higher Education Reform
  • 中文刊名:JJYJ
  • 英文刊名:Economic Research Journal
  • 机构:南开大学经济学院国际经济研究所;跨国公司研究中心;中国特色社会主义经济建设协同创新中心;
  • 出版日期:2019-01-20
  • 出版单位:经济研究
  • 年:2019
  • 期:v.54;No.616
  • 基金:国家自然科学基金项目(71773055);; 南开大学中央专项基本科研业务费(63185009);; 天津市人才发展特殊支持计划青年拔尖人才(TJTZJH-QNBJRC-2-23);; 南开大学百名青年学科带头人培养计划的资助
  • 语种:中文;
  • 页:JJYJ201901005
  • 页数:16
  • CN:01
  • ISSN:11-1081/F
  • 分类号:54-69
摘要
加工贸易转型升级是中国转变发展方式和改革开放战略的重要内容。本文以"大学扩招"政策的实施作为准自然实验,采用倍差法系统地评估了人力资本对中国加工贸易企业升级的影响及其作用机制。本文发现,人力资本扩张显著提高了加工贸易企业的出口技术复杂度,有利于促进加工贸易企业升级。渠道检验表明,人力资本扩张不仅促使了加工贸易企业加大研发投入和在职培训的力度,而且还促进了加工贸易企业进口使用更多种类和更高质量的中间投入品,同时还激励了加工贸易企业增加固定资产投资,这些因素共同推动了加工贸易企业升级。异质性分析发现,人力资本扩张对融资约束程度低、管理效率高、资本密集型以及外资型加工贸易企业升级的促进效应更大。此外,本文从更多的维度研究了人力资本与加工贸易升级的关系,发现人力资本扩张促进了加工贸易企业组织方式从来料加工向进料加工的转变,提高了加工贸易企业的出口国内附加值率,同时还提升了加工贸易企业的生产效率与自主创新能力。
        Since the reform and opening up, Chinese processing trade has developed rapidly. However, most of it remains in the stage of OEM production, lacking self-owned brands and core technologies, and its export expansion is mainly driven by a large number of low-value-added primary processed goods. Problems persist, such as an insufficient ability to conduct independent research and development and a low ability to acquire added value; hence, Chinese processing trade is located in the middle and low end of the global value chain. In the context of the new type of international division of labor, it is urgent for Chinese processing trade to transform and upgrade. This paper treats the sharp increase in human capital resulting from the higher education reform as a quasi-natural experiment and adopts a difference-in-differences method to empirically investigate the impact of human capital expansion on the upgrading of Chinese processing trade. Based on Chinese firm-level data from 2000 to 2013, the results show that human capital expansion significantly raises processing firms' export technological sophistication and thus promotes the upgrading of Chinese processing firms. The mechanism tests show that human capital expansion not only spurs processing firms to increase R&D and on-the-job training expenditures but also inspires processing firms to import and use more varieties and higher quality intermediate inputs. It also encourages processing firms to increase fixed investments. All of these factors jointly promote the upgrading of processing firms. Further heterogeneity analysis shows that the positive effect of human capital expansion is larger for processing firms with lower financing constraints, higher management efficiency, higher capital intensity, and foreign-owned processing firms. We also document heterogeneity in the impact of human capital expansion on the upgrading of processing firms across fields. Finally, this paper explores the relationship between human capital and the upgrading of processing firms from additional perspectives and finds that human capital expansion tends to promote the transformation of the organization mode from pure assembly processing trade to import-and-assembly processing trade, increase processing firms' domestic value added ratio, and increase processing firms' production efficiency and independent innovation ability. This paper has important policy implications. The government should continue to attach great importance to and actively promote the development of higher education and realize the transformation from "scale expansion" to "quality improvement",thereby continuously improving the quality of human capital in China. Processing trade firms should hire and absorb high quality human capital at all costs, increase funding for on-the-job training, and raise the human capital of current employees. This paper makes the following contributions. First, it is one of the first to explore the impact of human capital expansion on the upgrading of Chinese processing trade at the micro level, which enriches the literature on the determinants of Chinese processing trade transformation and upgrading. Second, it uses the higher education reform implemented by the Chinese government in 1999 as a quasi-natural experiment and investigates the causal effects of human capital expansion on the upgrading of Chinese processing trade by adopting the difference-in-differences technique. Third, it constructs a comprehensive system for evaluating the upgrading of processing trade in the context of the open economy and global value chain. Last but not least, it explores the mechanisms through which human capital expansion affects the upgrading of processing trade and deepens our understanding of the internal relationship between the two. In addition, this paper examines the heterogeneous effects of human capital expansion on the upgrading of processing trade from multiple perspectives.
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    ① 根据历年《中国统计年鉴》和《中国海关统计年鉴》计算得到。
    (1)中国的大学本科教育通常为四年制,1999年“大学扩招”后大学毕业生大规模进入劳动力市场的首个年份是2003年。
    (2)具体地,本文首先利用美国1980年数据测算ISIC3位码行业的人力资本强度指标,然后以HS6位码产品代码为“中介”将ISIC3位码行业对应到中国工业行业GB3位码上。
    (3)由于鞋类制造业的人力资本强度在各行业中最低,与Che & Zhang(2017)类似,本文将该行业视为基准行业。
    (4)由于中国工业企业数据库中企业研发投入指标在部分年份缺失,表3第(1)列回归所对应的样本期为2001—2003年、2005—2007年和2010年。
    (5)另外,本文还采用研究开发费占企业销售收入的比重衡量研发创新,所得的结论一致。感谢审稿人的建议。
    (6)其中,在职培训支出采用“1+培训支出”的自然对数值衡量。由于中国工业企业数据库中企业培训支出指标在部分年份缺失,表3第(2)列回归所对应的样本期为2001—2007年。
    (7)本文还尝试进一步区分进口产品的不同贸易模式,即分别构造一般贸易模式下的进口种类与加工贸易模式下的进口种类指标进行估计,结果发现,人力资本扩张对企业进口种类的促进效应不受进口产品的贸易模式的影响。感谢审稿人的建议。
    (8)考虑到在中国,与经济相对落后的中西部地区相比,大学毕业生可能更倾向于去经济较为发达的东部沿海地区就业,导致东部地区汇聚了大量的人力资本,该特征可能会对大学毕业生供给冲击的地区异质性影响产生干扰。受到数据可获得性的限制,目前尚不能对此进行分离,不过本文在回归中控制了“地区×年份”固定效应,这可以在一定程度上缓解上述问题导致的偏差。感谢审稿人指出这一问题。
    (9)借鉴孙灵燕和李荣林(2011)的做法,采用利息支出占企业固定资产投资的比重来衡量企业融资约束,如果该比值越高,意味着企业面临的融资约束程度越小。
    (10)具体而言,将企业期初的资本劳动比从低到高进行排序,据此将企业分为五组,相应的得到五个资本劳动比分组虚拟变量(Quantile1—Quantile5),其中Quantile1表示资本劳动比最低的企业虚拟变量,Quantile5表示资本劳动比最高的企业虚拟变量。在此基础上,将企业资本劳动比分组虚拟变量与Humcap×Post03形成三重交叉项,并将它们加入到基准倍差法模型进行估计。
    (11)笔者也尝试在进行三重交叉项回归时加入变量之间的两两交叉项,发现本文的核心结论仍然成立。
    (12)由于2007年及其之后年份的中国海关贸易数据库不再详细报告加工贸易的具体方式(来料加工与进料加工),故此处估计所用的样本期为2000—2006年。表5第(2)列与此相同。
    (13)受数据可获得性的限制,本文测算了2000—2007年加工贸易企业出口DVAR指标,故表5第(3)列回归所对应的样本期为2000—2007年。
    (14)这套数据库来自中国国家专利局,具体包括发明专利、实用新型专利和外观设计专利三种类型,本文使用了其中2000—2011年的样本。
    (15)考虑到有些企业没有专利申请,因此,本文采用“1+企业专利申请数”的自然对数值来衡量lnPat_T。下同。

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