Retorno de escala em educação : estimativa da função de capital humano nos estados brasileiros

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro, Waleska de Fátima
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual de Maringá; Brasil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia; UEM; Maringá, PR; Departamento de Economia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação para o trabalho; Desenvolvimento econômico; Mercado de trabalho; Qualificação profissional; Formação profissional; Qualificações profissionais; Capital humano; Retorno da escolaridade; Modelo não-linear; Método de Heckman; Brasil.; Returns to formal education; Non-linear model; Heckmam method; Human capital; Brazil.; Ciências Sociais Aplicadas; Economia
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.uem.br:8080/jspui/handle/1/3509

The objective of this research is to investigate the existence of increasing returns to formal education in Brazilian states and, by extension, Brazil, between the years 2003 and 2007. We also explore by gender. The theoretical and empirical model used allows us to tackle two problems present in the literature. The first is the non-linearity of Mincerian coefficients. The second is the potential sampling selection bias. The use of this model and technique lead us to obtain robust results for the presence of increasing returns to education at marginal level for Brazil and its states. For instance, at the aggregate level, the increasing returns starts at 4.0 years of formal education and, considering each gender separately, this return reducing this value. In most states of the North and Northeast, the female has yet to cross the threshold barrier of increasing returns. But these features are also present, nearly all the regions of the Center-East. The State of São Paulo and Paraná had a better rate of return for males. As for females, the best results were in the State of Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul. As a general result, the estimates allow for future construction of human capital functions for each state to test economic policies.