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Human Capital Theory

, 2023
→ It is an investment because costs are incurred, both explicit, in the form of fees, and implicit, in the form of “hardship”, as well as opportunity cost of staying in school while the individual could begin his career. Like most of studies in Economics,
K. S. Kertechian, Hadi El-Farr
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Human Capital Theory

Review of Educational Research, 2014
Human capital theory has had a profound impact on a range of disciplines from economics to education and sociology. The theory has always been the subject of bitter criticisms from the very beginning, but it has comfortably survived and expanded its influence over other research disciplines.
E. Tan
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Human capital theory

Universities and the Labour Market, 2021
M. Jelonek
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Human capital theory

Developments in Labour Market Analysis, 2018
C. Joll   +3 more
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Career Development and Human Capital Theory: Preaching the “Education Gospel”

The Oxford Handbook of Career Development, 2020
This chapter analyses the relationship between career development, education, and human capital theory. It argues that education lies at the heart of our understanding of how individuals develop their careers and how purposeful career development ...
T. Hooley
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Revisiting human capital theory: progress and prospects

Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations, 2019
This chapter provides a chronology of understanding of human capital theory tracing its roots back to the pioneering work of Adam Smith. The chapter traces the theoretical underpinnings of human capital theory and its evolution in the human resources ...
J. Winterton, K. Cafferkey
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Reformulating the Critique of Human Capital Theory

Journal of economic surveys (Print)
Despite criticism, human capital theory (HCT) has remained central for six decades to the teaching and practice of economics. This paper reformulates the critique of HCT, focusing on two aspects that are typically relegated to the margin.
Paul Auerbach, Francis Green
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Theorizing Translanguaging and Multilingual Literacies Through Human Capital Theory

The Complex and Dynamic Languaging Practices of Emergent Bilinguals, 2015
In this conceptual article we invite multilingual researchers to consider the concept of translanguaging through the lens of human capital theory. Our thinking about the interconnections among human capital, multilingualism, and translanguaging is ...
Patrick H. Smith, Luz A. Murillo
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