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Much work has been done on exploring the determinants of firm-centric regional economic resilience in a short term, while the role of labour skills, particularly their structural configurations, for long-run resilience has received less exploration. Unlike many developed economies having relatively stable skill polarisation, China’s regional labour markets have experienced significant skill upgrading over the past decades. Such upgrading may have led to unprecedented impacts on the long-run resilience of regional economies. This paper introduces a skill-based conceptual framework for analysing regional economic resilience in a long run, incorporating notions of skill endowment, skill complementarity and skill polarisation. By examining the evolving labour skill composition – specifically high-skilled abstract, medium-skilled routine and low-skilled manual occupations – in Chinese cities between 2000 and 2015, this paper explores how labour skill evolution shapes long-term regional economic resilience. The results indicate that a high level of high-skilled labour is associated with enhanced resilience, and the coexistence of high- and low-skilled labour appears to play an enabling role. This paper suggests that workforce dynamics offer a novel lens for understanding long-term regional economic resilience.
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