abstract considering the role of health in human life, economic growth and social development, we can express that; human source is both means and aim of economic growth. in prior studies about human capital and economic growth, the main emphasis was on educational capital and the role of health capital was not considered seriously. the present study tries to investigate the relationship betwee...

the purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the intellectual capital of firms and their earnings quality. the research was conducted with 158 accepted companies and 948 firm-year observations from iran stock market. empirical studies were conducted based on hypothesis by value added intellectual coefficient as measures of intellectual capital and taking absolute value of...

This discussion encompasses the various types of human capital intangible assets. Some of these human capital intangibles qualify as intellectual property. Of course, like general commercial intangible assets, many human capital intangibles do not qualify as intellectual property. The most common type of human capital intangible is a business unit’s trained and assembled workforce. The assemble...

Any discussion of whether the global financial system has served the world well requires us to think about what it is that capital flows could achieve in the best of circumstances. The basic neoclassical model suggests that, with rising financial globalization, capital should flow from rich to poor countries, making people in both sets of countries better off by enabling a more efficient intern...

Alvarez and Jermann (2000) show that the constrained efficient allocations of endowment economies with complete markets and limited commitment can be decentralized with endogenous borrowing limits on the Arrow securities. In a model with capital accumulation, aggregate risk and competitive intermediaries, we show that such a decentralization is not possible unless one imposes an upper limit on ...

the increase in the number of university graduates, especially at ma level, in the recent years on one hand and the disproportionate growth of employment on the other hand, has made graduates unemployment one of the major challenges of the country. most students prefer to be employed, while employment capacity in society and increase in the number of students do not match closely. entrepreneurs...

This paper uses a multi-stage education model to identify the human capital dynamic linkage in early childhood development, namely how children’s pre-kindergarten human capital levels affect their schooling efficiency and outcomes. The human capital dynamic linkage is significantly positive, and estimation without controlling for endogeneity is downward biased. The human capital dynamic linkage...

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital characteristics and firm performance in engineering consulting. Because general experience, firm-specific human capital and diversity carry specific costs and benefits we hypothesize curvilinear (taking inverted U-shapes) relations to firm performance. We find little effect of general experience and firm-specific human capital, but t...