Education and labour productivity in New Zealand

Weshah Razzak and Jason Timmins

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: We estimate the effect of four types of education qualifications, as a proxy for human capital and skill levels, on GDP per capita, and compute the average percentage returns. We also test the effect of the product of each proxy of human capital with R&D on GDP per capita. We find that only university qualification and its product with R&D to have a positive effect on the average economy-wide productivity.

Keywords: Labour productivity; education qualification; R&D (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D20 J08 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-02-21
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