Nonmonotonic relationship between human capital and unemployment: an exploratory study with empirical evidence on Singapore

Kong Weng Ho () and Randy Tan

Applied Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 15, issue 15, 1177-1185

Abstract: We examine empirically the role of human capital, together with global and domestic technologies, in the evolution of unemployment in Singapore. Our results show a threshold level of human capital, below (above) which increases (decreases) in human capital will reduce (raise) unemployment. This nonmonotonic relationship is caused by a greater substitution from labour toward technology feasible at higher levels of human capital.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850500461399

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