Does Human Capital Matter for Growth in OECD Countries?
Evidence
from Pooled Mean-Group Estimates
ANDREA BASSANINI
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD); EPEE Universit?d' Evry
STEFANO SCARPETTA
World Bank - Social Protection Unit (HDNSP); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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January 2001
OECD Economics Working Paper No. 282
Abstract:
This paper presents empirical estimates of human-capital augmented growth equations for a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1971-98. It uses an improved dataset on human capital and a novel econometric technique that reconciles growth model assumptions with the needs of panel data regressions. Unlike several previous studies, our results point to a positive and significant impact of human capital accumulation to output per capita growth. The estimated long-run effect on output of one additional year of education (about 6 percent) is also consistent with microeconomic evidence on the private returns to schooling. We also found a significant growth effect from the accumulation of physical capital and a speed of convergence to the steady state of around 15 percent per year. Taken together these results are not consistent with the human capital augmented version of the Solow model, but rather they support an endogenous growth model a la Uzawa-Lucas, with constant returns to scale to "broad" (human and physical) capital.
Keywords: growth, human capital, panel data
JEL Classifications: O11, O15, O41
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