Regional benefits from education. Polish and international experience

Description: The project was aimed at investigating the following issues:

• theory and empirical evidence on the impact of human capital on economic growth
• human capital, regional growth and convergence in Poland
• spatial effects of human capital
• changes in education accessibility cross social strata in Poland
• creation and absorption of human capital by academic cities
• role of education in the economic transformation

The outcomes of the research have been included in the book “Education as a factor and product of regional development. The experience of Poland in the international perspective”, Scholar, Warszawa 2012 [in Polish].