Kapitał ludzki i wzrost gospodarczy w podregionach
Human capital and economic growth in the Polish sub-regions

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary growth models, apart from the variables representing labour and capital, take into consideration also human capital measures. The spatial disproportions in the level of development of Polish regions give rise to the attempts of defining the factors influencing the differences. The main objective of the paper is the analysis of the relationships between the regional GDP per capita and human capital level in Polish NUTS3 regions. The additional objective is investigating whether the before mentioned phenomena exhibit spatial dependence. It was found that sub-regions with low values of human capital tend to cluster in the western Polish territories. There are no significant spatial relationships in the formation of the GDP per capita. In the second part of the paper, there are presented the estimation results of the model explaining the regional GDP per capita. The results show the significant, positive influence of the human capital level on the GDP. The study was conducted based on data for 2012.

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