Regional Growth and Convergence: The Role of Human Capital in the Portuguese Regions

Catarina Cardoso () and Eric Pentecost
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Catarina Cardoso: School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, UK

Discussion Paper Series from Department of Economics, Loughborough University

Abstract: Potentially one of the most important determinants of regional economic growth and convergence is human capital, although due to a lack of data this factor is frequently omitted from econometric studies. In contrast, this paper constructs three measures of human capital at the NUTS III regional level for Portugal for the period 1991-2008 and then includes these variables in regional growth regressions. The results show that both secondary and higher levels of education have a significant positive effect on regional growth rates which may be regarded as supportive of Portuguese education policy, which over the last three decades has attempted to raise the regional human capital by locating higher education institutions across the country.

Keywords: Human capital; Regional convergence; GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 I21 O18 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09, Revised 2011-09
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