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Regional human capital inequality in Europe in the long run, 1850-2010

Claude Diebolt and Ralph Hippe

Region et Developpement, 2017, vol. 45, 5-30

Abstract: Human capital is an important factor for economic and social development, as has been underlined by recent theoretical models. A range of contributions has focused on the international evolution of human capital over the last decades and beyond. However, the regional dimension of human capital in Europe remains insufficiently explored, particu-larly in a long-run perspective. For this reason, this paper addresses this gap in the litera-ture and highlights the regional evolution of human capital in Europe between 1850 and 2010 by using numeracy, literacy and educational attainment proxies. The results show that intranational inequalities in human capital have always been important and are in a number of cases more important than international differences. However, we find a con-vergence in literacy and educational attainment rates over the respective time periods.

Keywords: Human Capital; Regional Development; Inequality; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N33 N93 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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