IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pkp/teafle/v1y2014i4p30-38id1585.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Impact of Human Capital on Economic Growth: Evidence from Tunisia Using Star and Stecm Models

Author

Listed:
  • Nidhal Mgadmi
  • Houssem Rachdi

Abstract

Human capital is one of the most important drivers for economic growth. This paper aims to outline theoretical and empirical frameworks for thinking about the role of human capital in a model of endogenous growth. Only a small set of recent papers investigated the relationship between different educational levels and economic growth in one country. This first study conducted in Tunisia contributes to the existing literature by using Smooth Transition Autoregressive models (ESTAR, LSTAR) referring to non-linear least squares (NOLS) procedure to underline this non-linear relationship. The advantage of our modeling strategy is that the relationship between human capital and growth is nonlinear. The principal empirical finding conducted in Tunisia over the period 1974-2012 is that human capital exerts a significant influence on economic growth.

Suggested Citation

  • Nidhal Mgadmi & Houssem Rachdi, 2014. "The Impact of Human Capital on Economic Growth: Evidence from Tunisia Using Star and Stecm Models," The Economics and Finance Letters, Conscientia Beam, vol. 1(4), pages 30-38.
    • Handle: RePEc:pkp:teafle:v:1:y:2014:i:4:p:30-38:id:1585
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://archive.conscientiabeam.com/index.php/29/article/view/1585/2200
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pkp:teafle:v:1:y:2014:i:4:p:30-38:id:1585. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Dim Michael (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://archive.conscientiabeam.com/index.php/29/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.