Creativity, education or what? On the measurement of regional human capital

Eckhardt Bode and Lucia Perez Villar
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Lucia Perez-Villar ()

No 1958, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida's suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida's notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers' cognitive and noncognitive skills. It shows that this microfoundation is similar to that of human capital in recent labor economics, which has facilitated important new insights. It also shows that Florida's measure is too crude to make a difference. Nonethe-less, it is time to rethink regional human capital. Occupations may help project workers' cognitive and noncognitive skills from the micro to the regional level.

Keywords: Human Capital; Education; Creativity; Cognitive Skills; Noncognitive Skills; Occupation; Regional Wages; Regional Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I25 J24 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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