This conference advanced our understanding of the factors and behaviors influencing human capital formation over the life cycle and the policies and interventions that are most effective in fostering human capital investment.
Cost-benefit analyses and rate-of-return calculations strengthen the evidence that ECD programs foster human development (i.e., human capital skills) and save governments' money in the long term.
We study alternative public policies aimed at fostering the development of human capital (investment in education) and those at enhancing investments in innovation.
We became acquainted last winter when I wrote a story about the Biopolis, and have since corresponded on subjects of mutual interest developing human capital, fostering creativity and the pleasures of Singaporean cuisine.
Such a regional approach can create and keep financial returns local while generating the human capital needed to foster the industry.
By decentralizing power, and inciting local energies, Cameron's reforms are fostering the sorts of environments where human capital grows.
Predistribution of human capital, through education and training, fosters self-respect and economic agency, while predistribution of capital stakes gives people the kind of independence that comes with being less in thrall to the vagaries of the labour market.
Using data from the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth, this article uses Tobit analyses to test the statistical relationship between multiple factors (demographics, human capital, and independent living services) and yearly income for former foster youth at age 21 years.
By human capital economists mean the education and training that foster in the young marketable skills that can be traded for cash at the workplace.
Potential education-specific explanations that have been suggested for inequalities in mental health reflect human capital more than economic capital, and include fostering of academic achievements of children, and promotion of social competence [ 44].
