Human capital measures and stock return predictability: Macroeconomic versus microeconomic approaches

Jaeram Lee, Jungjoon Ihm and Doojin Ryu

Finance Research Letters, 2017, vol. 21, issue C, 53-56

Abstract: This letter measures human capital returns in a microeconomic sense as returns to education using Korean survey data, and compares them to the traditional macroeconomic measures, such as labor income growth. Both measures exhibit similar patterns of correlation with important economic variables and financial returns. However, returns to education are distinguished from labor income growth by a notable positive correlation with stock cash flow innovation and the consumption–wealth ratio (cay). Further, in a predictive regression of financial asset returns, labor income growth presents a negative effect for future excess stock returns, whereas returns to education exert a positive influence similar to cay. These results show that returns to education reflect another aspect of human capital returns that labor income growth does not reveal.

Keywords: Human capital returns; Labor income growth; Return predictability; Returns to education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 I22 I26 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2016.12.019

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