Human capital is increasingly believed to play an important role in the growth process; however, adequately measuring its stock remains controversial. Because the estimated impact that human capital has on economic growth is sensitive to the measures or proxies of human capital, accurate and consistent measures of human capital are needed. While many measures of human capital have been develope...

The objective of this paper is to reinvestigate the relationship between natural gas consumption and economic growth by including foreign direct investment, capital and trade openness in Malaysia for the period of 1971-2012. The structural break unit root test is employed to investigate the stationary properties of the series. We have applied combined cointegration test to examine the relations...

Knowledge workers are critical for the production of goods and services in the information economy, and thus investment in human capital plays an increasingly important role in economic growth. Since firms cannot directly own human capital and cannot easily monitor or verify human capital investments made by their employees, they need to devise appropriate incentives to attract skilled employee...

This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980’s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the self-employed have no incentive to invest in a costly signal to show to employers their productivity, ...

The dynamic of Israeli women’s labour market experiences is analysed, with the focus on three main determinants of their attachment to the labour market: (i) family events, particularly the effect and timing of childbirth on women’s market involvement, (ii) human capital, and (iii) structural determinants, including occupation, and sector of employment. Utilizing data from the 2001 mobility stu...

Those persons employed in this nation's agribusiness industry can ill afford to ignore the balance sheet for U.S. agriculture. Preliminary estimates for 1983 suggest that production agriculture currently functions on a base of debt capital totaling $215 billion. While total assets employed have, since 1980, remained almost constant at about $1,000 billion, our farmers' equity position has actua...

Social capital and health have drawn much attention in public health. Employing three models, this study examines relationships between vertical/horizontal/comprehensive social capital, self-rated health, malaria infection, as well as health-related behaviors/attitudes. In Model 1, odds ratios were calculated to scrutinize the relationships between component variables of social capital and "Sel...

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...

The June 1982 supplement to the Current Population Survey obtained information from women concerning their childbearing to date as well as their future birth expectations. This report presents data based on this survey as well as showing trends in out-of-wedlock childbearing for women since 1947. The lifetime birth expectations of women aged 18 to 24 years are the same as for that same age gr...