Accounting for human capital externalities with an application to the Nordic countries

European Economic Review

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 553-567

  Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Externalities; Growth accounting; Human capital; TFP

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; GROWTH THEORY; HUMAN CAPITAL; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0037616216     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00169-6     Document Type: Article

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