Human Capital and Economic Growth

By IIASA's World Population Program (POP)
and the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austrian Academy of Sciences

Project Leader: Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma (crespo@iiasa.ac.at)

Steering Committee: Wolfgang Lutz, Alexia Prskawetz, Warren Sanderson

Task:

New comprehensive assessment of the empirical macro-level returns to education using the newly developed IIASA/VID data based for 120 countries giving educational attainment by age, sex and five-year age groups since 1970.

Figures on Human Capital & Economy Growth:

Figure 1 - Population by Age, Sex and Education Attainment in Korea in 1970
Figure 2 - Population by Age, Sex and Education Attainment in Korea in 2000
Figure 3 - Scenarios

Crespo Cuaresma J, Lutz W (2007). Human Capital, Age Structure and Economic Growth: Evidence from a New Dataset. IIASA Interim Report IR-07-011 [April 2007, 18 pp].

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