Human capital as an element of sustainable development in the NUTS 2 regions of Central and Eastern Europe
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The objectives of this study are: to construct composite measures of human capital and of the three SD pillars: economic, social and environmental; to analyse their regional differentiation; to estimate the impact of human capital on the level of each of the SD pillars. The analysis covers NUTS 2 regions of the CEE countries in the year 2022. A measure of human capital was constructed adopting the Local HDI approach. The indicators of the SD pillars were constructed as geometric means of diagnostic variables. A SUR model was used to estimate the impact of human capital on the level of each pillar. The estimation results indicated a strong effect of human capital on the economic and social pillars and a much weaker effect on the environmental pillar. A significant impact of EU membership on the social and environmental pillars was also found.
Source: Economics and Environment
Author: Barbara Dańska-Borsiak
Institution: University of Łódź
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414629666