Improving Indonesia's export competitiveness through human capital investments
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https://doi.org/10.52300/grow.v10i1.15310Keywords:
exports, education, health, HDI, labor, productivityAbstract
This research was conducted to analyze the influence of education investment, health investment, HDI, and labor productivity on Indonesian exports of goods and services simultaneously or partially. This type of research is quantitative research. The samples in this research are an investment in education, investment value in health, HDI, labor productivity, and the value of Indonesian exports using time series data from 1994 to 2023. Analysis is used to calculate directly the magnitude of the influence of investment value in education, investment value in the health sector, HDI, labor productivity as the independent variable, and the value of Indonesian exports as the dependent variable. The findings in this research are that the investment value variables in the education sector and the investment value in the health sector have no significant effect on the value of Indonesian exports. The variable value of the Human Development Index and the value of Indonesian labor productivity have a positive and significant effect on the value of Indonesian exports. Meanwhile, in the simultaneous test of independent variables, the investment value of the education sector, the investment value of the health sector, the value of the Human Development Index, and the productivity of Indonesian labor have a positive and significant effect on the value of Indonesian exports.
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