The impact of export goods composition on human capital

One of the most important topics in the last decade of the world is human capital. Human capital, or in other words, the quality of labor or knowledge institutionalized in human beings increases the production and economic growth of countries. Developed and developing countries emphasize the further development of human capital to accelerate economic growth. This development of human capital is one of the basic solutions to enter the international arena. According to this, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of export goods composition on human capital in 15 selected Asian countries during the period 1990-2019. Hence, three types of agricultural goods, low-skill-intensive manufactures and skill-intensive manufactures were used. Also, the control variables of the model include total imports of goods, population, GDP and mortality rate Our findings based on the dynamic panel least squares (PDOLS) method show that the variable coefficient of agricultural export goods and low-skill-intensive manufactures is negative and significant and reduces human capital in selected countries. The export of skill-intensive manufactures increases human capital in these countries. The variables of total import, population and GDP also had a positive effect on human capital. Hence, it is necessary to pay attention to the export goods composition to increase human capital