Study Of Relation Between Human Capital And Total Factor Productivity In The View Of Regional Economic Growth

China's economic growth has been remarkable since the reform started in 1978, the comprehensive national power and the level of living standard have also been improved greatly, but compared with the developed countries, the Total Factor Productivity contributed less to the GDP growth in China, which means that China's economic performance is driven mainly by factor accumulation not productivity growth. In order to keep China's economic growth sustainable, it is necessary to improve the quality of economic growth and transform from extensive growth to intensive growth. One indicator of economic growth quality is TFP. To find a way to improve the TFP's contribution to GDP growth, it is necessary to estimate the TFP properly and study the relation between TFP and other factors such as human capital. TFP put emphasis on the quality of input factor, while in China the human capital is insufficient and uneven, studying and estimating TFP, analyzing the relation between human capital and TFP would be theoretical and practicable to China, which is a developing country with immense labor, insufficient resource, scarcity investment.In the thesis we study the 30 provinces of China from 1990-2004, and the basic model is Malmqusit productivity index that is a non-parametric method belonging to Frontier Production Function Model considering the efficiency. The following issues are concerned: the estimation of TFP; the contribution of human capital direct and indirect effect to regional economic growth; the relation between human capital and TFP.To analyze the relation between human capital and regional economic growth, the first thing is to measure and analyze the growth of 30 provinces' human capital and compare human capital's regional differences during the studying-period. Chapter 2,3,and 4 are mainly about human capital's growth. Based on the average income of the industrial laborers, Chapter 2 compares human capital input for 30 provinces from the point of income-based approach, which help to obtain a better picture of China's human capital.The approaches to measuring human capital all have some advantages and disadvantages, and Chapter 2 is only from income aspect to analyze human capital. Chapter 3 builds an evaluation index system of human capital based on the labor income, human capital cost, education stock and human capital decomposition,...