This paper analyzes, using a binomial logit model, the factors that determine a students decision on a three or four year University career. The microeconomic model we consider includes the most important aspects of educational choices. The results show how social background, family earnings and...

This paper analyzes the relationship between human capital and convergence with a model that takes into account the different effects of human capital accumulation on regional convergence. As an input, human capital produces convergence due to both decreasing returns and public intervention on...

This paper analyses the regional wages in Spain and tests their relationship with the different regional human capital endowments, using an approach that takes into account the possible measurement error in human capital indicators. The results indicate that, when allowing for the possibility of...

This paper analyzes the Spanish case, in which a significant degree of regional inequality exists along with scarce net migratory flows. Therefore, we consider spatial differences on human capital returns as a determinant of migration instead of per capita income or wage per worker, as empirical...

This paper analyzes Spanish economic growth and the effect of interaction between human capital accumulation and sectoral structure. Data show significant differences in sectoral human capital stocks per worker for the period 1965-95. When tested, the effect of human capital, both as an input...

This paper analyses the importance of different technological inputs (R&D and human capital) and different spillovers in explaining the differences in patenting among Spanish regions in the period 1986-2003. The analysis is based on the estimation of a knowledge production function. A region¿s...

This paper analizes the effect of education on job productivity, via improvements in workers humaii capital. Together with conventional measures of human capital such as the average years of school attainment, some alternative measures which take into account the distribution by levels of...

This paper contains an analysis of the economic effects of human capital onproduction, measured as Gross Value Added per full-time equivalent worker. To thisend, a Cobb-Douglas type production function has been used, with Gross Value Added(GVA) a function of human capital and private and public...