Manpower Utilization, Human Resource Development, Education and Economic Growth in the United States
| Pages | 151-177 |
| Date | 01 February 1971 |
| Published date | 01 February 1971 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009663 |
| Author | FRANK FARNER,JAMES S. ROSE |
| Subject Matter | Education |
THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION 151
VOLUME IX, NUMBER 2 OCTOBER, 1971
Manpower
Utilization,
Human Resource
Development,
Education
and
Economic Growth
in
the
United States
FRANK
FARNER
AND
JAMES
S.
ROSE
This research study was started at the University of Oregon, School
of Education, in the Spring of 1967. A group of advanced graduate
students in school finance under the supervision of the senior
author, undertook the study to examine systematically the relation-
ships between and among measures of human resource develop-
ment, education, manpower utilization and economic growth in the
states of the United States. The model for the research was the
Harbison and Myers classic study of this important issue among the
nations of the world entitled, "Education, Manpower and Economic
Growth". (McGraw-Hill, 1964.) The research reported touches upon
several important fields—economics of education, political science,
human resource management and governmental planning. The
relationships studied hold important implications for the allocation
of scarce human and economic resources to attain state and national
social and economic goals.
INTRODUCTION
This research study is concerned with the relationships between
and among human resource development and utilization, educa-
tional investments, and economic growth in the 48 Continental
States of the United States.1
The conceptual design selected for description and analyses of
data in this study was adapted from Harbison and Myers, who
studied and analyzed education, manpower, and economic growth
in seventy-five nations of the world.2
DR. FRANK FARNER is Director of Program Development, American Associa-
tion of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C. He holds the degrees of
B.A. of Pamona College and MA. and Ph.D. of the Claremont Graduate School.
DR. JAMES S. ROSE is Assistant Professor of Educational Administration and
Acting Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the School of Education, University of
Colorado. He holds the degrees of B.S. of Eastern Oregon College and M.A. and
D.Ed. of the University of Oregon. The authors wish to acknowledge the assistance
of their colleagues in the preparation of this paper: John Edmundson, Robert
Hamill, Tom Kirk and Jake Veldhuisen. Their appreciation is also extended to the
Bureau of Educational Research and Service, School of Education, University of
Oregon, for providing the necessary support services.
152 Journal of Educational Administration
Selection of the Harbison and Myers design not only provided a
useful means of description and analyses, but also permitted com-
parisons of this study's research findings for 48 states with those
reported by Harbison and Myers for 75 nations. This study ex-
panded upon Harbison and Myer's methodology by using multiple
regression techniques to describe the relative power of selected sets
of independent variables to explain the variation found in the
dependent variable of economic growth, personal income per capita.
TABLE 1
STATES GROUPED BY LEVELS OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
ACCORDING TO COMPOSITE INDEX
LEVEL I
Index
167.80
109.30
171.80
176.55
177.45
177.55
180.90
180.95
181.60
183.40
State
South Carolina
Virginia
Kentucky
West Virginia
North Carolina
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Tennessee
Maryland
LEVEL III
Index
205.75
207.00
207.25
209.00
209.45
209.80
209.95
214.15
214.35
215.20
219.25
220.10
221.95
223.20
223.35
223.40
State
Louisiana
Arizona
Michigan
New York
Wisconsin
California
Connecticut
Iowa
Wyoming
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Mississippi
Montana
Colorado
Minnesota
LEVEL II
Index
188.95
190.05
192.45
192.55
192.65
193.45
195.20
195.95
196.75
199.05
200.90
201.80
202.15
State
Missouri
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Texas
Alabama
New Mexico
Illinois
Maine
Indiana
New Hampshire
Arkansas
LEVEL IV
Index
226.15
227.45
228.30
229.80
230.40
230.50
233.75
258.70.
State
Idaho
Washington
North Dakota
Massachusetts
Oregon
Vermont
South Dakota
Utah
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