Demographic change, human capital, and economic growth in Korea
- Authors
- Han, Jong-Suk; Lee, Jong-Wha
- Issue Date
- 3월-2020
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Keywords
- Aging; Demographic change; Education; Human capital; Growth; Training
- Citation
- JAPAN AND THE WORLD ECONOMY, v.53
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JAPAN AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
- Volume
- 53
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/57498
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.japwor.2019.100984
- ISSN
- 0922-1425
- Abstract
- We construct a measure of human capital using micro datasets on labor composition of age, gender, education, and wage rate and analyze its role in economic growth for the Korean economy. Over the past three decades, human capital has grown steadily at about 1% per year, contrasting to a continuously declining trend of total work-hours. This growth has been driven by the rise of better-educated baby-boom cohorts. A growth accounting exercise shows that human capital contributes significantly to economic growth; it accounted for 0.5% points of annual GDP growth over the period. Human capital is projected to remain a major growth factor over the next two decades as the increase in educational attainment continues. Increased employment rate of elderly or female workers reduces the aggregate human capital growth while increasing the available labor. Polices to improve human capital of female or elderly workers help to increase aggregate human capital growth.
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