Nonlinearity of the Relationship between Human Capital and Exportation in Brazil
Table 1
Exportation, capital, and labor annual percentage growth rates and the increase of human capital (yrs) over the study period (1995 through 2006).
State
Variables
Variables
State
Acre
8.85
5.24
7.35
0.04
Rio Grande do Norte
10.71
5.49
1.85
1.93
Amazonas
17.87
7.39
5.51
1.36
Sergipe
8.31
5.06
2.47
1.89
Amapá
3.37
−6.49
5.90
1.69
Distrito Federal
16.80
5.90
3.35
1.77
Pará
7.18
3.71
8.13
0.85
Goiás
15.58
5.79
2.49
2.25
Rondônia
15.33
9.73
6.15
0.13
Mato Grosso do Sul
7.76
6.27
2.21
1.98
Roraima
8.88
5.06
7.86
1.06
Mato Grosso
17.15
9.01
2.35
1.81
Tocantins
54.21
9.84
2.89
2.49
Espírito Santo
5.28
3.63
2.32
2.05
Alagoas
1.09
0.46
1.72
1.37
Minas Gerais
6.01
1.84
2.24
1.98
Bahia
8.33
3.62
1.51
2.30
Rio de Janeiro
12.15
−0.21
1.85
1.50
Ceará
6.20
3.35
2.16
2.45
São Paulo
6.67
2.51
2.20
1.97
Piauí
−5.11
7.74
1.76
1.85
Paraná
6.43
4.87
1.85
2.14
Paraíba
5.23
6.49
1.59
1.56
Rio Grande do Sul
4.68
5.08
1.21
1.52
Pernambuco
0.39
2.51
1.73
2.00
Santa Catarina
4.60
4.76
2.11
2.13
Maranhão
5.63
2.08
1.29
2.14
aAnnual percentage growth rates of , , and were obtained as follows: , where is the growth rate and is the time; bvalues for human capital () represent the change of level of the average for this variable, that is, .
