Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30228
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 143
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper provides first evidence on the social returns to education from both firm-level and regional human capital. Using panel data from German social security, both at an individual and aggregated at the plant and regional level, I estimate earnings functions incorporating measures of regional and firm-level human capital while controlling for various types of unobserved heterogeneity, demand shocks, regional physical capital and other regional and firm-level confounders. The results suggest negligibly small external returns to the firm-level shares of high-skilled workers. On the regional level, the results show no support for external returns to education, except for skilled workers.
Subjects: 
Human capital externalities
social returns to education
error-component model
JEL: 
D62
J24
J31
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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