Impact of Logistics Development on Economic Growth: An Empirical Research from Guangdong Province in China

Table 2

Variable description.

Variable	Factor	Symbol	Definition	Unit
Explained variable	Level of economic development	pgdp	Per capita GDP	Yuan
Core explanatory variable	Comprehensive development level of the logistics industry	dl	Overall entropy of the logistics industry	—
	Labor input	lab	Total number of employees in three major industries	Million
Control variable	Government function	gov	Proportion of investment in science, technology, and education with respect to government public expenditures	%
	Capital input	cap	Proportion of fixed investment with respect to GDP	%
	Degree of opening to the outside	open	Proportion of imports and exports with respect to GDP	%
	Urbanization	urb	Proportion of urban population with respect to total population	%