Autori: Baici, Eliana , Casalone, Giorgia
Titolo: Has human capital accounted for regional economic growth in Italy? A panel analysis on the 1980-2001 period.
Periodico: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale 'A. Avogadro' : Facoltà di Economia - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Metodi Quantitativi "SEMEQ" - Quaderni
Anno: 2005 - Volume: 05 - Fascicolo: 101 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 27

Since Solow's (1957) contribution, human capital has a central role in the debate on economic growth as a leading long period development factor. If from a theoretical point of view the role of human capital on economic growth both directly and throughout its use in R&D activities is fully accepted, from an empirical perspective the results are much more controversial, strictly depending on the quality of data. A recent analysis by Aghion and Cohen (2004) put in evidence that high-level human capital has a positive effect on economic performance only if a country is close to the technological frontier: countries that are far from this frontier, specialised in traditional sectors, can growth, almost in the short run, even exploiting medium-level human capital. This analysis lead to consider the link between human capital and growth with a greater detail, trying to disclose the effect of different human capitals in ". country, such as Italy traditionally oriented toward a low/medium technology production. Using,beyond the usual proxies of human capital, some measures of its quality and of its interrelation with R&D sector, we would like to give a new contribution to the analysis of regional growth in Italy in the period 1980-2001. The panel approach, here adopted, allows us to taKe account of the temporal variability and to check for omitted variable specific for regions and persistent over time.


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