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High-Tech Human Capital: Do the Richest Countries Invest the Most?

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  • Neves Sequeira Tiago

    (Departamento de Gestão e Economia - Universidade da Beira Interior, Faculdade de Economia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

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In this paper we show that the richest countries are investing proportionally less than middle income countries in engineering and technical human capital. We generalize this result, controlling for country-specific effects, cross-time error correlations, heteroskedasticity, the presence of outliers and the introduction of other explanatory variables. Thus, we establish an unexpected stylized fact (about human capital composition): the proportion of high-tech human capital in tertiary education presents an inverted U-shaped relationship with GDP per capita. This is interesting because Research and Development (R&D) endogenous growth models predict and most evidence show that investment in R&D increases with economic development.

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  • Neves Sequeira Tiago, 2003. "High-Tech Human Capital: Do the Richest Countries Invest the Most?," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, De Gruyter, vol. 3(1), pages 1-28, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:bejmac:v:topics.3:y:2003:i:1:n:13
    DOI: 10.2202/1534-5998.1115
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    1. Tiago Neves Sequeira, 2008. "Transitional Dynamics Of An Endogenous Growth Model With An Erosion Effect," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 76(4), pages 436-452, July.
    2. Neves Sequeira Tiago & Reis Ana B, 2006. "Human Capital Composition, R&D and the Increasing Role of Services," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, De Gruyter, vol. 6(1), pages 1-25, June.
    3. Mattoo, Aaditya & Mishra, Deepak, 2008. "Foreign Professionals And Domestic Regulation," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4782, The World Bank.
    4. Catherine L. Mann, 2003. "Globalization of IT Services and White Collar Jobs: The Next Wave of Productivity Growth," Policy Briefs PB03-11, Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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    JEL classification:

    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O50 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - General

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