This paper investigates the relationship between human capital and economic growth in Pakistan with aggregate time series data. Estimated with the Johansen (1991) approach, the fitted model indicates a critical role for human capital in boosting the economy’s capacity to absorb world technical...

This volume was prepared by Erik Hornung while he was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The thesis consists of four core...

This paper examines the mechanisms through which human capital influences economic growth in the CEMAC region. The effect of human capital on economic growth was estimated using Two Stage Least Square (2SLS) multiple regression model for the individual countries and the method of Generalized...

Trade is the principal channel through which the flow of ideas, knowledge and technology will take place. But it is not clear to what extent the recipient country can take advantage of these variables. Adoption, imitation and production process, by and large, depend on human capital in the...

This paper develops a dynamic model of human capital investment and labor participation. The main focus is on the fact that women's labor force participation rate is U-shaped over the course of development. We also analyze the behavior of the relative education levels of men and women, the...

Following Galor and Zeira (1993), we study the effect of the world interest rate on inequality and growth for the period 1985-2005, char- acterized by falling world interest rates and cross-country income po- larization. We argue that the two phenomena are related on the basis of the following...

Motivated by the concern that the recent surge in inflation could retard growth, the paper revisits the nexus between inflation and growth from the perspective of an emerging economy, India. Examining this relationship using a wavelet multi resolution analysis with varying time scale...

Africa will account for 80 percent of the projected 4 billion increase in the global population by 2100. The accompanying increase in its working age population creates a window of opportunity, which if properly harnessed, can translate into higher growth and yield a demographic dividend. We...

During the second half of the twentieth century economists have build newer models of economic growth that consider policy influences of growth and divergent outcomes among countries. These models address issues concerning economic growth, operation of financial markets, trade policy, government...

In this paper I attempt to understand the empirics of human capital (schooling attainment here) and economic growth under the framework of neoclassical growth model and later endogenizing the technological progress as a function of stock value of human capital. Various econometric methodologies...