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Human Capital Creation in an Economic Perspective

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Rita Asplund

    1. The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, ETLA, Helsinki, Finland

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Table of contents (10 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction and Summary

    • Rita Asplund
    Pages 1-12

  3. Schooling, Learning and Worker Productivity

    • John Bishop
    Pages 13-67

  4. Human Capital and Earnings in the Nordic Countries

    • Rita Asplund, Erling Barth, Carl le Grand, Arne Mastekaasa, Niels WestergÃ¥rd-Nielsen
    Pages 68-94

  5. The Impact of Family Background on the Returns on and Length of Schooling in Sweden

    • Anders Björklund
    Pages 95-116

  6. Regional and Occupational Wage Differences — Evidence from Workers in Norwegian Manufacturing Industries

    • Kristin Dale
    Pages 117-128

  7. Workplace Skill Accumulation and its Impact on Earnings and Labor Mobility: The U.S. Experience

    • Lisa M. Lynch
    Pages 129-144

  8. Trends in Lifelong Learning in Europe

    • Leenamaija Otala
    Pages 145-159

  9. Continuing Education and Schumpeterian Competition: Elements for a Theoretical Framework

    • Gérard Ballot
    Pages 160-171

  10. Education, Competence Development and Economic Growth — A Microeconomic Explanation to Macroeconomic Growth

    • Gunnar Eliasson
    Pages 172-195

  11. Uncertainty, Multivalence and Growth

    • Kim Huynh, Marie-Pierre Merlateau
    Pages 196-213
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About this book

The past few decades have seen a revolutionary increase in interest in the economic role of education and training at the societal, business, and individual levels. This is mainly due to the strong post-war growth in industrialized economies, which has been driven by rapid technological progress and far-reaching structural change and, in the end, has resulted in increasingly skill-intensive production and growing demandfor more educated labour. Today it is frequently argued that with the increasing importance of the role of know-how, the workforce has become the most important single input in the production process. Simultaneously the dramatic increase in the availability of large micro-Ievel databases has opened enormous possibilities to study the economic role of human capital creation also empirically. The economic perspective of human capital accumulation is, however, of utmost importance also in times of deep economic recession. Periods of economic slowdown and rapidly increasing unemployment tend to in crease the demandfor advanced education and training in particular. This brings up, in turn, questions regarding overeducation and satisfying both private and social retums on investments in human capital.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, ETLA, Helsinki, Finland

    Rita Asplund

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Capital Creation in an Economic Perspective

  • Editors: Rita Asplund

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-99776-1

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-0815-5Published: 25 November 1994

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-99776-1Published: 22 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 213

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Population Economics

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