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...