Training human capital and regional economic growth — Base on the perspective of human capital quality

Based on the human capital investment theory and from the perspective of human capital quality, this paper fully considers the differences in training quality caused by different training investment scales, using panel data of employment training centers in various regions to empirically test the actual effect of training human capital on regional economic growth, and analyzing the heterogeneous impact of training human capital on the eastern, central and western regions, and the impact mechanism of training human capital on regional economic growth. The results show that human capital, taking into account training yield and training quality, has a positive promoting effect on economic growth; as two important forms of human capital investment, both education and training have a promoting effect on regional economic development, and there is a certain degree of substitution effect; training human capital has the greatest impact on economic growth in the central region and the smallest in the west; the mechanism test verifies that training human capital promotes economic growth by promoting technology research and development. In the future, it is necessary to optimize the skill structure of the labor market, improve the quality of human capital, and promote high-quality regional economic development by attaching importance to vocational training, improving skills evaluation, and introducing subsidy policies to guide enterprises to provide skills training. © 2024 Systems Engineering Society of China. All rights reserved.