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Constructing Quality-Adjusted Human Capital And Its Distribution Across Countries, Kumari Neha Jha, Bharat Diwakar
Constructing Quality-Adjusted Human Capital And Its Distribution Across Countries, Kumari Neha Jha, Bharat Diwakar
CBER Conference
There is extensive literature on education and its distribution within and across countries. However, the measurement of the latter does not incorporate the quality of education. This paper fills the gap by first calculating the quality-adjusted human capital and then using it to construct a measure of quality-adjusted human capital inequality.
Personal Growth, Social Change Or Human Capital: A Document Analysis Of An Online Education Program For Adult Learners, Nakita Dolet, Maeghen L. Macdonald
Personal Growth, Social Change Or Human Capital: A Document Analysis Of An Online Education Program For Adult Learners, Nakita Dolet, Maeghen L. Macdonald
Adult Education Research Conference
This document analysis interrogates how one institution balances classically competing objectives of emancipatory learning, personal growth, and human resource development in an online adult education program.
Human Capital Theory: Intersecting Educational And Economic Theories, Paul Bouchard
Human Capital Theory: Intersecting Educational And Economic Theories, Paul Bouchard
Adult Education Research Conference
Training policy in the developed world is increasingly influenced by the perception that the future lies in developing the Knowledge Economy through investments in “Human Capital”. There are some problems with this simplistic view of contemporary economics.