TY - JOUR
T1 - Human capital investment and economic growth
T2 - Exploring the cross-country evidence
AU - Wolff, Edward N.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The paper investigates three models on the role of education in economic growth: human capital theory, a threshold effect, and interaction effects between education and technological activity. Data for 24 OECD countries on GDP, employment, and investment from the Penn World Tables over the period 1950 to 1990 was used. Five sources are used for educational data. The descriptive statistics suggest that the convergence in labor productivity levels among these nations appears to correspond to their convergence in schooling levels. However, econometric results showing a positive and significant effect of formal education on productivity growth among OECD countries are spotty at best. With only one or two exceptions, educational levels, the growth in educational attainment, and interaction effects between schooling and R&D were not found to be significant determinants of country labor productivity growth.
AB - The paper investigates three models on the role of education in economic growth: human capital theory, a threshold effect, and interaction effects between education and technological activity. Data for 24 OECD countries on GDP, employment, and investment from the Penn World Tables over the period 1950 to 1990 was used. Five sources are used for educational data. The descriptive statistics suggest that the convergence in labor productivity levels among these nations appears to correspond to their convergence in schooling levels. However, econometric results showing a positive and significant effect of formal education on productivity growth among OECD countries are spotty at best. With only one or two exceptions, educational levels, the growth in educational attainment, and interaction effects between schooling and R&D were not found to be significant determinants of country labor productivity growth.
KW - Convergence
KW - Education
KW - Human capital
KW - Productivity
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U2 - 10.1016/S0954-349X(00)00030-8
DO - 10.1016/S0954-349X(00)00030-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034518992
SN - 0954-349X
VL - 11
SP - 433
EP - 472
JO - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
JF - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
IS - 4
ER -