Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20760 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1461
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use panel data on 16 countries spanning the 1965 -2000 period. Controlling for fixed effects as well as endogeneity, the results show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred estimator combines high and low frequency differences of the data. We discuss reasons why this estimator is well suited for empirical analysis of economic growth.
Subjects: 
productivity
openness
human capital
growth
panel data
MENA countries
JEL: 
F43
O53
O11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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