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Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Growth in the Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan

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  • Abdul Hamid

    (Centre for Poverty Reduction and Society Policy Development (CPRSPD), UNDP and Planning Comission, Government of Pakistan.)

  • J. Hannas Pichler

    (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.)

Abstract

Manufacturing is an important sector of Pakistan’s economy. The main focus of this paper is to analyse the major factors of value-added growth and productivity in the manufacturing sector by using Translog Production Technology over the period 1971-72 to 2004-05. The empirical findings show that the contribution of productivity and human capital is around one- third of the total value-added growth in manufacturing sector which is less than the contribution attributed to these factors in developed and many other developing countries. Conventional factors like capital and labour are still the mainstay in the value-added growth of Pakistan’s manufacturing sector.

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  • Abdul Hamid & J. Hannas Pichler, 2009. "Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Growth in the Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 48(2), pages 125-140.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:48:y:2009:i:2:p:125-140
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    1. Cruz Mejía, Jose Vidal & Cruz-Rodríguez, Alexis, 2020. "Impacto de la inversión extranjera directa en el crecimiento económico, las exportaciones y el empleo de República Dominicana [Impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth, exports and em," MPRA Paper 100990, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Tariq Mahmood, 2015. "Mediating Effect of Advertising Expenditure on Labour Productivity - A Case of Manufacturing Industries in Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 54(1), pages 1-15.

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    Keywords

    Human Capital Spillovers; Total Factor Productivity; Absolute and Relative Shares;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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