Los vínculos entre el capital humano y la competitividad en América Latina

The purpose of this work is to determine in what extent the human capital contributes to explain the competitiveness of an economy. For this, firstly, we analyse the evolution of this variables in the LatinAmerican countries. For this, we use a stock variable of human capital (the percentage of popu...

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Main Author: Martín Arnaiz, José Lorenzo
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: 2007
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=7391258
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Summary:The purpose of this work is to determine in what extent the human capital contributes to explain the competitiveness of an economy. For this, firstly, we analyse the evolution of this variables in the LatinAmerican countries. For this, we use a stock variable of human capital (the percentage of population aged 25 to 64 which finished secondary education at least) and an ex-post variable of competitiveness (the market share). Subsequently, we carry out a correlation analysis to determine the link between human capital and competitiveness.