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State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2010
Complete College America and FutureWorks conducted an analysis of certificate production, the value of the certificate program, and the economic benefit it provides to the region and nation. The conclusion, based on labor market demand and both personal and economic returns, is that certificates count and the policy and trends around certificates…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, State Policy, Education Work Relationship, Educational Trends
Duncan, Greg J.; Ludwig, Jens; Magnuson, Katherine A. – Future of Children, 2007
Greg Duncan, Jens Ludwig, and Katherine Magnuson explain how providing high-quality care to disadvantaged preschool children can help reduce poverty. In early childhood, they note, children's cognitive and socioemotional skills develop rapidly and are sensitive to "inputs" from parents, home learning environments, child care settings, and the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Public Policy, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children
Asghar, Waheed; Siddi, Sulaman Hafeez – International Journal of Training Research, 2008
In this era of global competition, human resources will play a decisive role in the battle for efficiency and competitive advantage, where nations and organisations with superior and quality-oriented human capital will soon outperform those with inefficient and quantity-oriented labour force. Rate of human capital formation will be more important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Productivity, Competition
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2012
Canada weathered the global economic crisis well, mainly reflecting sustained growth in domestic pending, and the economy is continuing to grow despite the persistence of international turbulence, most recently stemming from the euro zone sovereign debt crisis. In Canada's case, several factors are acting in its favour. Federal fiscal plans are…
Descriptors: Innovation, Living Standards, Foreign Countries, Banking
Beadie, Nancy – Cambridge University Press, 2010
This book argues that schools were a driving force in the formation of social, political, and financial capital during the market revolution and capitalist transition of the early republican era. Grounded in an intensive study of schooling in the Genesee Valley region of upstate New York, it traces early sources of funding and support for…
Descriptors: Investment, Discipline, Trust (Psychology), Economic Change
Hunt, Ingrid; Hennessy, Michael; O'Brien, Emma; Sherry, Rhona – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2007
To develop our economies and allow the small business sector to achieve its maximum potential, it is imperative we invest in human capital. It is estimated that 97% of Irish businesses are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), with over 95% having fewer than 50 employees. We can therefore agree that the qualification and skill mix of the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Small Businesses, Industry, Foreign Countries
Lopez-Varela, Asuncion, Ed. – InTech, 2012
This is a unique and groundbreaking collection of questions and answers coming from higher education institutions on diverse fields and across a wide spectrum of countries and cultures. It creates routes for further innovation, collaboration amidst the Sciences (both Natural and Social), the Humanities, and the private and public sectors of…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Knowledge Management, Research Methodology, Higher Education
Bartik, Timothy J.; Erickcek, George – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2007
This paper examines the effects of expansions in higher educational institutions and the medical service industry on the economic development of a metropolitan area. This examination pulls together previous research and provides some new empirical evidence. We provide quantitative evidence of the magnitude of economic effects of higher education…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Wages, Economic Development, Industry
Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
This paper estimates models of the evolution of cognitive and noncognitive skills and explores the role of family environments in shaping these skills at different stages of the life cycle of the child. Central to this analysis is identification of the technology of skill formation. We estimate a dynamic factor model to solve the problem of…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Influence, Family Role, Developmental Stages
Chandra, Ramesh – Teacher Today, 1972
Chandra applies economic terminology to the field of education, with emphasis on the idea of education as savings''. (SP)
Descriptors: Educational Demand, Educational Economics, Human Capital, Investment

Barrett, Alan; O'Connell, Philip J. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2001
Irish business surveys in 1993 (n=654) and 1996-97 (n=215) were used to estimate productivity effects of training. General rather than specific training had positive effects on productivity regardless of changes in work organization, firm size, or level of human capital before training. (SK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Organizational Change, Productivity

Healy, Robert G. – Journal of Human Resources, 1971
Empirical evidence from a 4-year study of the performance of a sample of rehoused factory workers in Mexico is presented. (Author)
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Health, Housing, Human Capital

Niemi, Albert W. – American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1975
This report indicates a relative increase on the returns to Black education in the South when compared with the results of earlier studies. (JH)
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Economics, Equal Education, Human Capital

Plecki, Margaret L. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2000
Reviews and critiques the ways in which researchers have used both productivity theory and human capital theory in efforts to measure the returns on investments in improving teacher quality. Also discusses strategies for improving investigations of the returns on investments in improving teacher quality. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Research, Human Capital, Investment
Pankhurst, K. V.; Livingstone, D. W. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2006
Worldwide interest in work and learning is generating a large volume of disparate disconnected studies which can help improve the understanding of both work and learning as separate domains, but which lack an overall perspective. This paper proposes the outline of a conceptual framework for relating work and learning by an individual worker as a…
Descriptors: Employment, Learning, Job Performance, Productivity