Economic growth and human resources (English)

There have been many attempts to determine the role of human capital in the process of economic growth, including growth accounting and the measurement of social and private returns to investment in education. Both approaches have tended to indicate positive returns to investment in human capital, but both have been criticized on theoretical and empirical grounds. An analysis is conducted on two levels. First, some simple statistical manipulations...

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HICKS, N.;
Document Date
1980/07/31
Document Type
Staff Working Paper
Report Number
SWP408
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Economic growth and human resources
Keywords
life expectancy

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HICKS, N..

Economic growth and human resources (English). Staff working paper|no. SWP 408 Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/178991468739490287

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