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 Volume 6, Issue 6 (June 2019), Pages: 43-50

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Human capital in the manufacturing sector from 1972 to 2015 and its association with economic growth of Pakistan

 Author(s): Sehresh Hena, Luan Jingdong *, Ouxiang Zhang

 Affiliation(s):

 College of Economics and Management, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8049-8651

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2019.06.007

 Abstract:

The manufacturing sector has been a large contribution towards promoting economic growth, generating employment, competitiveness and trade development in the world. Human capital plays a significant role in the growth of the manufacturing sector, while its determination on manufacture sector growth in Pakistan has remained unexplored in literature. The main objective of this study is to define the proxy role of human capital formation (e.g., secondary school enrolment, infant mortality rate, and life expectancy) and their direct impact on manufacturing sectors in Pakistan for the period of 1972–2015. An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach was applied to investigate and co-integrate the causality link between the study variables. These tests put a spotlight on the long-run connection among the variables, while in addition, the results revealed that human capital, employed labor force, gross fixed capital formation, inflation rate, energy consumption, tax on GDP, domestic credit had a positive impact on the manufacturing growth in Pakistan. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Human capital, Manufacturing sector growth, Pakistan, Autoregressive distributed lag

 Article History: Received 9 January 2019, Received in revised form 2 April 2019, Accepted 4 April 2019

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 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Hena S, Jingdong L, and Zhang O (2019). Human capital in the manufacturing sector from 1972 to 2015 and its association with economic growth of Pakistan. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 6(6): 43-50

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