Productivity Growth, Human Capital and Technology Spillovers: Nonparametric Evidence for EU Regions
利用1992-2006年欧盟17国231个地区12个行业的数据，非参数地评估了生产率溢出的强度，发现技术差距与人力资本对增长的影响呈非线性关系，中等偏高技术差距且人力资本低的地区溢出效应最小。
Abstract This paper assesses the strength of productivity spillovers nonparametrically in a data set of 12 industries and 231 NUTS2 regions in 17 European Union member countries between 1992 and 2006. It devotes particular attention to measuring the catching up through spillovers depending on the technology gap of a unit to the industry leader and the local human capital endowment. We find evidence of a nonlinear relationship between the technology gap to the leader as well as human capital and growth in logs. Spillovers are smallest for units with a medium‐high technology gap to the leader, especially for regions where human capital endowments are low.