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Preston Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Economists have long recognized the importance of human capital in economic growth. In this series of papers, I study how various institutions of human capital formation affected economic development in a variety of contexts prior to 1900. These include both formal institutions of human capital formation such as universities and informal…
Descriptors: Educational History, Human Capital, Economic Development, Universities
Forsyth, Hannah – History of Education Review, 2023
Purpose: This paper explores the economic and social effects of human capital investment in the 20th century. As well as drawing on census data and statistical yearbooks in Australia and Aoteoroa/New Zealand, the paper develops its argument by an intersection of scholarly work in sociology, economics and the history of education to consider the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Economic Factors, Social Influences, Land Settlement
Transformational Leadership and Human Capital within the Disruptive Business Environment of Academia
Abu-Rumman, Ayman – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of transformational leadership on the cultivation of human capital in an academic setting from the perspective of university employees Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative data was collected from a range of staff working within three universities located in Jordan using an online…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Human Capital, Universities, School Personnel
Ho, Thuy Thi Hai; Le, Van Hong; Nguyen, Duong Tuan; Nguyen, Chi Thi Phuong; Nguyen, Ha Thi Thu – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between career development learning (CDL) and students' perceived employability (SPE) with the mediating role of human capital. Using a quantitative method based on structured questionnaires to collect data from 512 Vietnamese students before starting their internship at businesses and 322 of them after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Career Development, Career Education
Guilherme Strifezzi Leal; Álvaro Choi – Education Economics, 2023
The effects of affirmative action on the incentives to human capital accumulation are ambiguous from a theoretical perspective and the scarce empirical evidence on the matter provides mixed results. In this paper, we address this issue by investigating the impacts of Brazil's Law of Quotas on the students' performance in the college entrance exam,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Race, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Ng, Peggy M. L.; Wut, Tai Ming; Chan, Jason K. Y. – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: Embedded in higher educational settings, work-integrated learning (WIL) is a key reflection to students' perceived employability. The purpose of this study is to explore the antecedents of internal and external perceived employability. The research attempts to test a theoretical model examining the relationships among human capital, work…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Internship Programs, Human Capital
Valero, Anna – Centre for Economic Performance, 2021
This paper summarises the literature that has linked education and economic growth. It begins with an overview of the key concepts in neoclassical and endogenous growth models, and discussion on how these have been tested in the data. Issues with respect to specification, the measurement of human capital and causality are discussed, together with…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Human Capital, Educational Attainment, Productivity
Li, Zhao; Chu, Yujing; Fang, Hang – SAGE Open, 2022
There is a difference between the ways investment in general and advanced education affects human capital accumulation. Based on the endogenous economic growth model, this study considered the impact of hierarchical education investment on human capital accumulation and economic growth. Using Provincial Panel Data, the empirical analysis found…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Economic Development, Human Capital, General Education
Le, Thanh – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This article investigates whether student flows significantly channel academic knowledge from developed countries in the North to less developed ones in the South. It also examines if human capital absorbs and materialises this academic knowledge into technological development. Empirical analysis on a panel of 55 developing countries over…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Research and Development, Productivity
Madsen, Miriam – Educational Governance Research, 2022
This book addresses governing by numbers and human capital policy in higher education by asking how higher education is quantified, how the quantitative information is used in educational governance, and how the information is perceived by students, teachers, managers, and policymakers, and affects decision-making. It also thematically discusses…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism
Edokpolor, James E. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
This research investigates the relationship between business education students' human capital and core values of sustainable economic development from a gender perspective. This research specifically investigates four interrelated questions. First, do male and female business education students experience different types of general human capital?…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Business Administration Education, College Seniors, Human Capital
Castano-Mejia, Monica – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Problem: In Colombia, higher education plays a relevant role in developing human capital and equity, giving everyone the opportunity to access higher education. In particular, the government has been supporting public and private universities to open campuses in rural areas where guerrillas, the mafia, and paramilitary groups were fighting the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Human Capital, Equal Education
Agnihotri, Shikha; Shiva, Atul; Khan, Farha Naz – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: The study aims to assess the relationship between cultural capital, human capital, psychological capital, social capital and perceived employability of management graduates. Design/methodology/approach: The data was analysed through variance based partial least square (PLS) structural equation modelling on 505 management students by an…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Cultural Capital, Human Capital, Social Capital
Tolesh, Fariza – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
Using mixed methods research approach, this study explores the employment experiences of the Kazakhstani graduates with international human capital in the domestic labour market. Human and social capital theories and Spence's signalling theory are utilised to explain and consider how investment into and internationalisation of those capitals and…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Employment
Ilyasov, Asiman; Imanova, Sevil; Mushtagov, Addin; Sadigova, Zulfiyya – Quality in Higher Education, 2023
Today, one of the long-term development goals of Azerbaijan is to train competitive human capital in higher education in the 21st century in accordance with the modern requirements of the labour market. In this context, the modernisation of the quality assurance system in higher education in Azerbaijan is one of the priority issues. The article…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Employment Qualifications, Human Capital