Autori
Sulis, Giovanni
Hirsch, Carina

Titolo
Schooling, production structure and growth: an empirical analysis on italian regions
Periodico
Rivista italiana degli economisti
Anno: 2009 - Volume: 14 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 395 - Pagina finale: 419

This paper analyses the growth effects of high levels of human capital at the industry level. By favouring technology adoption, human-capital-intensive industries grow faster compared to less human-capital- intensive industries in regions that have higher levels of human capital. We use data for six macro sectors of manufacturing industries in the twenty Italian regions for the period 1971-2003; the results show positive and significant effects of human capital levels and growth rates on value added growth. This result is robust to a series of sensitivity checks such as other measures of growth and different indicators of human capital. This finding is particularly important for Italy, as it has always had a model of industrial specialisation focused on the traditional sectors which have a low content of technology and human capital.



SICI: 1593-8662(2009)14:3<395:SPSAGA>2.0.ZU;2-X
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