The quality of human capital, educational reform and economic growth

Gwanghoon Lee ()

International Economic Journal, 2001, vol. 18, issue 4, 449-465

Abstract: Using a general equilibrium growth model with a costly schooling process, this paper analyses the effect on economic growth of educational reform that allocates more resources to the schooling sector to raise the quality of human capital. It shows that the positive effect of improved quality on the economic growth could be offset by the reverse effect of reduced human capital formation that arises from the distortion of resource reallocation. An appropriate tax-subsidy scheme is shown to remove this reverse effect of educational reform.

Keywords: Human capital; resource allocation; economic development; JEL Classification: O12; O41; I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1080/1016873042000299936

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