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Human Capital and Economic Growth

Author : Alberto Bucci

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 32,44 MB

Release : 2019-11-26

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3030215997

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Book Description

This edited collection explores the links between human capital (both in the form of health and in the form of education), demographic change, and economic growth. Using empirical as well as theoretical perspectives, the authors investigate several important issues in the context of human capital, namely population ageing, inequality, public policy, and long-term economic development. Ultimately, they demonstrate that the accumulation of human capital is of crucial importance to long-run economic growth.



Human Capital and Economic Growth

Author : Andreas Savvides

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 26,95 MB

Release : 2008-10-10

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0804769761

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This book provides an in-depth investigation of the link between human capital and economic growth. The authors take an innovative approach, examining the determinants of economic growth through a historical overview of the concept of human capital. The text fosters a deep understanding of the connection between human capital and economic growth through the exploration of different theoretical approaches, a review of the literature, and the application of nonlinear estimation techniques to a comprehensive data set. The authors discuss nonparametric econometric techniques and their application to estimating nonlinearities—which has emerged as one of the most salient features of empirical work in modeling the human capital-growth relationship, and the process of economic growth in general. By delving into the topic from theoretical and empirical standpoints, this book offers an insightful new view that will be extremely useful for scholars, students, and policy makers.



Diagnosing Human Capital as a Binding Constraint to Growth

Author : Miguel Angel Santos

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 72 pages

File Size : 12,80 MB

Release : 2021-12-16

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 110898231X

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The empirical literature on the contributions of human capital investments to economic growth shows mixed results. While evidence from OECD countries demonstrates that human capital accumulation is associated with growth accelerations, the substantial efforts of developing countries to improve access to and quality of education, as a means for skill accumulation, did not translate into higher income per capita. In this Element, we propose a framework, building on the principles of 'growth diagnostics', to enable practitioners to determine whether human capital investments are a priority for a country's growth strategy. We then discuss and exemplify different tests to diagnose human capital in a place, drawing on the Harvard Growth Lab's experience in different development context, and discuss various policy options to address skill shortages.



The Process of Growth

Author : Giorgia Marini

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 38,41 MB

Release : 2005

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Human Capital

Author : Gary S. Becker

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 413 pages

File Size : 44,61 MB

Release : 2009-05-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0226041220

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Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination, marriage, family relations, and education. Becker's research on human capital was considered by the Nobel committee to be his most noteworthy contribution to economics. This expanded edition includes four new chapters, covering recent ideas about human capital, fertility and economic growth, the division of labor, economic considerations within the family, and inequality in earnings. "Critics have charged that Mr. Becker's style of thinking reduces humans to economic entities. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Becker gives people credit for having the power to reason and seek out their own best destiny."—Wall Street Journal



Human Capital and Institutions

Author : David Eltis

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 353 pages

File Size : 17,87 MB

Release : 2009-08-17

Category : History

ISBN : 1139480456

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Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic development. The issues they address range from nutrition in pre-modern societies to twentieth-century advances in medical care; from the social institutions that provided temporary relief to workers in the middle and lower ranges of the wage scale to the factors that affected the performance of those who reached the pinnacle in business and art; and from political systems that stifled the advance of literacy to those that promoted public and higher education. Just as human capital has been a key to economic growth, so has the emergence of appropriate institutions been a key to the growth of human capital.