Does Human Capital Matter for Growth in OECD Countries

By Andrea Bassanini, S. Scarpetta. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Educational mismatch, wages, and wage growth: Overeducation in Sweden, 1974-2000 (2009, background): “It is well-known that the average level of education has risen significantly in advanced industrial nations in recent decades (Barro and Lee 2001, Bassanini and Scarpetta 2001).”
Human capital in a global and knowledge-based economy : final report (2002, methodology): “In the case of Bassanini and Scarpetta (2001), an additional step is necessary.”
Does human capital matter for growth in OECD countries? A pooled mean-group approach (2002, methodology): “capital-augmented version of the neoclassical model, can be rationalised in an endogenous growth ` model a la Uzawa-Lucas with constant returns to scale to ‘broad’ (human and physical) capital (Bassanini and Scarpetta, 2001).”
Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital (2004, result): “This technological view of human capital received empirical support in the work of Benhabib and Spiegel (1994), Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1995) and Barro (1998), all of whom showed that both the initial schooling level and its interaction with a measure of the technology gap with the frontier were po”
Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries (2002, positive): “More recently, Bassanini and Scarpetta (2001) have extended the de la Fuente and Domenech database forward in time, and estimated the effect of education over 197198 for 21 OECD members using the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimator.”
Investment in human capital through upper-secondary and tertiary education (2002, background): “See Bassanini and Scarpetta (2001) and OECD (2001a).”
Funding Higher Education in the UK: The Role of Fees and Loans (2003, positive): “Education and Growth: There is a considerable amount of cross-country evidence internationally which points to a positive association between investment in education and growth; see, for example, Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1995); Barro (1998) and Bassanini and Scarpenta (2001) .”
Competitiveness and the Export Performance of the Euro Area (2005, background): “However, recent research by de la Fuente and Domenech (2000) and Bassanini and Scarpetta (2001) found a positive and significant impact of human capital accumulation on output per capita growth.”
Human Capital Theory (2014, background): “Second, some OECD researchers suggest that “data quality and econometrics do matter in explaining the often disappointing results on the link between human capital and growth” (Bassanini & Scarpetta, 2001, p. 24).”