Author: Elisabeth MagnaniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Investment in Human Capital, Labor Mobility and Inequality
Author: Elisabeth MagnaniInvestment in Human Capital
Author: B. F. KikerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Compilation of economic research papers on investment in labour force human capital formation in the USA - includes several cost benefit analysis outlines of investment returns on education, in plant training, health services, etc., and covers theoretical aspects of labour mobility, migration, brain drain, labour costs, income differences, occupational choice, etc. References and statistical tables.
Human Capital Policy
Author: David NeumarkPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1800377800
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This timely book evaluates international human capital policies, offering a comparative perspective on global efforts to generate new ideas and novel ways of thinking about human capital. Examining educational reforms, quality of education and links between education and socio-economic environments, chapters contrast Western experiences and perspectives with those of industrializing economies in Asia, focusing particularly on Korea and the USA.
Human Capital
Author: Gary S. BeckerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226041220
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
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
Studies in Human Capital
Author: Jacob MincerPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781782541554
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
'The books should. . . . be bought by every university library. The research reported here is important, the exposition is lucid, the sequencing of chapters is sensible and the retrospective aspect of the volumes provides a fascinating insight into the working methods of one of the great economists of our time.' - Geraint Johnes, International Journal of Manpower Studies in Human Capital, the first volume of Jacob Mincer's essays to be published in this series, assesses the impact of education and job training on wage growth. It offers an authoritative study of the effects of human capital investments on labor turnover and the impact of technological change on human capital formation.
Inequality and Growth
Author: Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality
Author: Fatih GuvenenPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437934900
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Wage inequality has been significantly higher in the U.S. than in continental European countries since the 1970s. This report studies the role of labor income tax policies (LITP) for understanding these facts. Countries with more progressive LITP have significantly lower before-tax wage inequality at different points in time. Progressivity is also negatively correlated with the rise in wage inequality during this period. Wage inequality arises from differences across individuals in their ability to learn new skills as well as from idiosyncratic shocks. Progressive taxation compresses the (after-tax) wage structure, thereby distorting the incentives to accumulate human capital, in turn reducing the cross-sectional dispersion of (before-tax) wages. Illustrations. This is a print-on-demand publication; it is not an original.
Investment in Human Capital, Labor Mobility and the Demand for Outside Labor
Author: Elisabetta MagnaniPublisher:
ISBN: 9780864228086
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China
Author: Shenggen FanPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191030236
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate. How did the country do it? How applicable are the lessons of China's economic reform of the past thirty years to the challenges it faces in the next three decades? What does the detailed pattern of China's success and challenges look like at the sub-sectoral and sub-national levels, and what does this mean for future policy? How will China's role as a global economic player evolve? The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China presents an original collection of perspectives on the Chinese economy's past, present, and future: 99 entries written by the leading China analysts of our time. The topics covered include: the China model, future prospects for China , China and the global economy, trade and the Chinese economy, macroeconomics and finance, urbanisation, industry and markets, agriculture and rural development, land, infrastructure, and environment, population and labour, dimensions of wellbeing and inequality, health and education, gender equity, regional divergence in China, and a selection of perspectives on some of China's provinces. The Editors are four global leaders in Chinese economic analysis and policy who between them have held or hold the following positions: Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute; Co-Editor, China Economic Review; President Chinese Economists Society; Assistant Director of Research at the IMF; Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank; and Professors of Economics at Ivy League Universities.
The Death of Human Capital?
Author: Phillip BrownPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190644303
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and prosperity, has governed Western approaches to education and labor for the past fifty years. However, many degree recipients have experienced the opposite. This book demonstrates that the human capital story is one of a failed revolution that requires an alternative approach to education, jobs, and income inequalities. Rather than abandoning human capital theory, the book calls for a broader view of education not merely as schooling, but as the process of acquiring the skills necessary to take on a flexible range of jobs and roles. In a rapidly changing job market, workers will need to capitalize on the skills, talents, and personality traits that they have honed through a lifetime of learning, rather than their academic credentials. A controversial challenge to the reigning ideology on economics and education, this text provides important insights into the current plight of the overqualified, underemployed labor market"--