Jin Wei, Gao Shuhan, Pan Sifan
School of Sociology and Population Studies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Jan;30(1):352-370. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-22120-x. Epub 2022 Jul 28.
Green total factor productivity (GTFP) improvement is an important way to achieve sustainable development, and how to improve GTFP has become the focus of attention of governments and scholars. This paper constructs a GTFP evaluation index system to characterize social, economic, ecological, cultural, and politically sustainable development, and analyzes the impact of environmental regulations on GTFP in the context of increasing innovative labor force. The results of the study are as follows: Firstly, China's GTFP continues to improve, with a decrease in low-value provinces and an increase in high-value provinces; there is an agglomeration effect of GTFP in the eastern and western regions. Secondly, under the role of innovative human capital, the threshold effect of China and the eastern and western regions is significantly positive in the first stage and insignificant in the second stage. The threshold effect of the central region is not significant in the first stage, but significantly negative in the second stage (- 11.650); the effect of environmental regulation in the eastern region is the strongest. Thirdly, the control variables in the upper period GTFP, national and eastern R&D investment, level of foreign openness, local fiscal expenditure, central and western information construction, western tertiary industry development, urbanization, foreign direct investment, level of foreign openness, and local fiscal expenditure can increase GTFP. In this regard, the government should adhere to innovative talent cultivation and investment in science and technology to build a talent ecological environment for regional sustainable development, adjust environmental regulations in time to meet the demand for sustainable development to realize the GTFP regional linkage enhancement.
绿色全要素生产率（GTFP）提升是实现可持续发展的重要途径，如何提升GTFP已成为政府和学者关注的焦点。本文构建了一个GTFP评价指标体系来刻画社会、经济、生态、文化和政治方面的可持续发展，并在创新劳动力增加的背景下分析环境规制对GTFP的影响。研究结果如下：第一，中国的GTFP持续提升，低价值省份减少，高价值省份增加；GTFP在东部和西部地区存在集聚效应。第二，在创新型人力资本的作用下，中国以及东部和西部地区的门槛效应在第一阶段显著为正，在第二阶段不显著。中部地区的门槛效应在第一阶段不显著，但在第二阶段显著为负（-11.650）；东部地区的环境规制效应最强。第三，上一期GTFP中的控制变量、国家和东部地区的研发投入、对外开放水平、地方财政支出、中部和西部地区的信息化建设、西部地区第三产业发展、城市化、外商直接投资、对外开放水平和地方财政支出能够增加GTFP。对此，政府应坚持培养创新人才和加大科技投入，构建区域可持续发展的人才生态环境，及时调整环境规制以满足可持续发展需求，实现GTFP区域联动增强。
