Veřejné výdaje na vysoké školství v ČR jako determinanta růstu HDP

This diploma thesis researches the relation of education, human capital and economic growth. In the first part the human capital is defined and its connection to growth models is described. In the second part the expenses on education by universities are analyzed, especially the public ones. The structure of current funding is also described and the development of expenses is analyzed. In the third part the short-term and the long-term relations between expenses and gross domestic product are empirically tested. The goal of the thesis is research of the relation between public expenses on universities in the Czech republic and the macroeconomic growth represented by gross domestic product. The main hypothesis is that these public expenses are determinant of GDP growth.