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Economic Growth and The Quality of Human Capital

Belkacem Laabas and Weshah Razzak

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: We calibrate an endogenous growth model to study the effect of the quality of human capital on productivity growth in a sample of thirty developed and developing countries for the period 1980 to 2007. We measure quality of human capital by relative cognitive skills. These are country scores in mathematics and science reported in Trends in International Mathematics and Science (TIMMS). The correlation between the relative quality of human capital and productivity growth is evident in the data for the developed countries. And, cross-country differences in the quality of human capital for a number of developed countries are highly positively associated with cross-country differences in productivity growth. The picture is significantly different for the developing countries in our sample.

Keywords: quality of human capital; economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E10 I20 J24 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-02-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cis, nep-dev, nep-dge, nep-fdg and nep-hrm
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