The Effect of Human Capital on Economic Growth:Case of IRAN

In advanced industrial countries, Human Capital has had a major contribution on their growth. In fact human capitl is complementary part of and physical capital and complements, and human capital makes using of physical capital more clear. Analysis of economic growth in advanced industrial countries shows that economic growth can not only be explained with physical capital be labour and human capital as a main variable should be entered in emplenation of production function and og growth. In this paper using data from 1959-2002 we have evaluated the effect of human capital indices on growth of Iranian economy. Findings show that growth in the level of adult's education and average growth of the years of educating of labour force has a significant and positive effect on growth domestic product.