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• The Influence of Human Capital Investment On the Exports of Services and Goods: An Analysis of the Top 25 Services Outsourcing Countries

With the rise of the global service economy, an understanding of the export competitiveness of nations is critical for managers seeking offshore export locations, and for government policy makers who wish to bolster the attractiveness of their nation as an exporting location. Services globalization calls into question the role of human capital investment, whose effect in past studies has been mixed. Drawing on human capital theory, this article developed three propositions and analyzed the effect of human capital investment, infrastructure, and the business environment on the export of services and goods from 25 countries from 1989 to 2003. Human capital did have a significant effect on the exports of goods and services. However, contrary to the expectations of human capital theory, hum...

... productivity and GDP growth (Becker 1975, Schultz 1961). Improvements in educational attainment acco... threshold of 10.00 according to Neter, Wasserman, and Kutner (1989). Results. Proposition 1. Human ...

• Management International Review
• Band 48 Nr. 4, Juli 2008