Investment in human capital

TW Schultz - The American economic review, 1961 - JSTOR
… growing amount of human capital per worker. As I read our record, the human capital
component has become very large as a consequence of human investment. Another aspect of the …

Human-capital investments and productivity

SE Black, LM Lynch - The American economic review, 1996 - JSTOR
There have been few studies in the United States on the impact of human-capital in-vestments,
such as education and employer-provided training, on productivity. Some of the …

China's human capital investment

JJ Heckman - China Economic Review, 2005 - Elsevier
… This paper discusses human capital investment in China. China's current … capital investment
over schooling and urban human capital investment over rural human capital investment. …

Investment in human capital: A theoretical analysis

GS Becker - Journal of political economy, 1962 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Therefore, our departure with this definition of earnings from the accounting conventions used
for transactions in material goods-which separate income from capital accounts to prevent a …

[PDF][PDF] On human capital investment

TW Schultz - Beijing Institute of Economics Press: Beijing, China, 1990 - pdf.usaid.gov
… our understanding of the role of human capital for economic growth and for human welfare.
Dr. … from the analysis of differing human capital investments in women and men presented in …

Immigrants and human-capital investment

HO Duleep, MC Regets - American Economic Review, 1999 - pubs.aeaweb.org
… of initial human-capital market value forgone as a result of investment, and gf(H1, u) is the
human capital production function with g a humancapital … The optimal investment decision, u*, …

Equity and efficiency in human capital investment: the local connection

R Benabou - The Review of Economic Studies, 1996 - academic.oup.com
A general model of community formation and human capital accumulation with social
spillovers and decentralized school funding is used to analyse the causes of economic …

Human capital investment: the returns from education and training to the individual, the firm and the economy

R Blundell, L Dearden, C Meghir, B Sianesi - Fiscal studies, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
… that has looked at the returns from human capital investments to employers. Lack of suitable
… that has tried to assess the contribution of human capital to national economic growth at the …

Education and investment in human capital

BA Weisbrod - Journal of political Economy, 1962 - journals.uchicago.edu
… health make investment in education more rewarding by extending life expectancy. Investment
in … With investment in human capital and non-human capital both contributing to economic …

Variations in human capital investment activity by age

PA Simpson, MM Greller, LK Stroh - Journal of vocational behavior, 2002 - Elsevier
… The implication of these results is that older adults’ human capital investment is more …
human capital theory. This work has consistently indicated that human capital investments are not …