关键词: 空气污染, 人力资源流动, 区域市场化水平, 区域创新能力

Abstract: Air quality is an important factor that affects human behavior, because its quality not only affects regional economic development and innovation capabilities, but also concerns human health. Human resources are an important foundation for innovation and development, and are the key to affecting regional innovation capabilities. This paper, taking provinces as research objects discusses the impact of air pollution on regional innovation capacity and its mechanism by using the 2008–2017 provincial-level air quality data in China. It is found that air pollution will significantly reduce regional innovation capacity and inhibit regional innovation output and will lead to the “squeezing-out effect” of regional innovation human resources. Air pollution significantly increases the regional flow of human resources, because innovative human resources are more likely to migrate to areas with high air quality. From the perspective of the impact mechanism, air pollution affects regional innovation capacity through the effect of the regional flow of innovative human resources and physical and mental status. Meanwhile, the regional marketization plays a positive role in regulating the process. Specifically, the higher the regional marketization, the more obvious the squeezing out of human resources, and the higher the level of regional marketization, the stronger the promotion effect of human resources on regional innovation capabilities.

Key words: air pollution, flow of human resource, regional marketization level, regional innovation capability