Human Capital Composition and Economic Growth

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-59

  Tsai, Chun Li ^a   Hung, Ming Cheng ^a   Harriott, Kevin ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Fair Trading Commission ^*  (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Human capital compositions

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EDUCATION; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN CAPITAL; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 77956286844     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9565-z     Document Type: Article

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