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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
American Journal of Sociology, 1988 There are two broad intellectual streams in the description and explanation of social action. One, characteristic of the work of most sociologists, sees the actor as socialized and action as governed by social norms, rules, and obligations. The principal virtues of this intellectual stream lie in its ability to describe action in social context and to ...
James S. Coleman
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The Competencies Needed by Health Sector Information Quality Advocates
Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 2023 Objectives: 1) To introduce to expert colleagues the concept of health sector information quality advocates. 2) To obtain these colleagues opinions on worth of the advocate role and the competencies needed by an advocate.
Lee Ridoutt, Beth Reid, Paul O'Connor
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Four Facts about Human Capital
Social Science Research Network, 2022 This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings within countries and at least half of the variation ...
D. Deming
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Measuring human capital using global learning data
Nature, 2021 Human capital—that is, resources associated with the knowledge and skills of individuals—is a critical component of economic development1,2. Learning metrics that are comparable for countries globally are necessary to understand and track the formation ...
Noam Angrist +3 more
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Trials, 2022 Background The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist protocol is advantageous given that it can avoid severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), especially for patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Shan Liu +6 more
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SOCIAL CAPITAL, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND FERTILITY [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019 We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the accumulation of human capital. We show how the erosion of social
Coppier, Raffaella +2 more
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The transfer of human capital [PDF]
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1995 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Boyan Jovanovic, Yaw Nyarko
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Human Capital and Sustainability [PDF]
Sustainability, 2011 A study of sustainability needs to consider the role of all forms of capital—natural, biological, social, technological, financial, cultural—and the complex ways in which they interact. All forms of capital derive their value, utility and application from human mental awareness, creativity and social innovation.
Ivo Šlaus, Garry Jacobs
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Investigating the Relationship between Perceived Communication Characteristics of an Organization's Social Media Page and Job Seekers' Job Pursuit Intentions: The Mediating Role of Employer Brand Personality [PDF]
مدیریت دولتی, 2023 Objective This study primarily seeks to investigate the relationship between the perceived communication characteristics of the organization's social media page and the job pursuit intentions of job seekers.
Mohsen Kamandi +2 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 To study the economic and environmental effects of human capital, previous studies measure human capital based on education; however, this approach has many shortcomings because not all educated people are innovative human capital.
Xi Lin +5 more
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