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Capital Humano, Estructura Sectorial Y Crecimiento En Las Regiones Españolas

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  • Lorenzo Serrano Martínez

    (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas)

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This paper analyzes Spanish economic growth and the effect of interaction between human capital accumulation and sectoral structure. Data show significant differences in sectoral human capital stocks per worker for the period 1965-95. When tested, the effect of human capital, both as an input and as a determinant of total factor productivity (TFP) growth, varies greatly. In manufacturing, construction and services, we find a positive and significant effect, but in agriculture and energy the rise in workers¿ schooling levels seem to be just a problem of overeducation. Finally, human capital accumulation has made the transformation of the Spanish economy towards the most dynamic and productive sectors easier, promoting the aggregate TFP. Este trabajo analiza el crecimiento económico español con especial énfasis en la interacción entre acumulación de capital humano y dinámica sectorial. Se distinguen cinco sectores productivos para los que se constata la existencia de significativas diferencias en las dotaciones educativas a lo largo del periodo 1964-1995. Por otra parte, al analizar empíricamente el crecimiento regional, la influencia del capital humano en estos sectores, bien directamente como factor productivo, bien como determinante del crecimiento de la productividad total de los factores, varía considerablemente. En los sectores secundarios y terciarios la acumulación de capital humano parece haber impulsado el crecimiento, mientras que en los primarios la mejora de los niveles educativos parece constituir un simple fenómeno de sobrecualificación. Finalmente, la creciente formación de los ocupados parece haber facilitado la transformación del aparato productivo hacia los sectores más dinámicos y productivos aumentando de este modo la productividad total de los factores agregada.

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  • Lorenzo Serrano Martínez, 1998. "Capital Humano, Estructura Sectorial Y Crecimiento En Las Regiones Españolas," Working Papers. Serie EC 1998-04, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
  • Handle: RePEc:ivi:wpasec:1998-04
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    1. Esteban Sanroma & Raul Ramos, 2007. "Local Human Capital and Productivity: An Analysis for the Spanish Regions," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(3), pages 349-359.
    2. Lorenzo Serrano-Martínez, 1999. "Capital humano, estructura sectorial y crecimiento en las regiones españolas," Investigaciones Economicas, Fundación SEPI, vol. 23(2), pages 225-249, May.
    3. A. Di Liberto, 2004. "Convergence clubs and the role of human capital in Spanish Regional Growth," Working Paper CRENoS 200418, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
    4. José Manuel González-Páramo & Diego Martínez López, "undated". "Public Investment and Convergence in the Spanish Regions," Studies on the Spanish Economy 112, FEDEA.
    5. Roberto Leon-Gonzalez & Daniel Montolio, 2004. "Growth, convergence and public investment. A Bayesian model averaging approach," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(17), pages 1925-1936.
    6. Juan Monterrey & Amparo Sánchez-Segura, 2006. "Las características socioeconómicas como incentivos para la información financiera: evidencia empírica española," Investigaciones Economicas, Fundación SEPI, vol. 30(3), pages 611-634, September.
    7. Pérez, Francisco & Serrano, Lorenzo, 2000. "Capital humano y patrón de crecimiento sectorial y territorial: España (1964-1998) [Human Capital and Sectorial and Territorial Growth Patterns: Spain (1964-1998)]," MPRA Paper 17582, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Ramón María-Dolores; & Mari Carmen Puigcerver, "undated". "An Empirical Study of Growth in Spanis Regions: is it Exogenous?," Studies on the Spanish Economy 144, FEDEA.
    9. repec:rre:publsh:v:33:y:2003:i:2:p:184-205 is not listed on IDEAS
    10. Leone Leonida & Daniel Montolio, 2004. "On the determinants of convergence and divergence processes in Spain," Investigaciones Economicas, Fundación SEPI, vol. 28(1), pages 89-121, January.

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