human capital
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (economics) The stock of competencies, knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, cognitive abilities, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
- Coordinate terms: social capital, cultural capital
- 2020 July 28, Thomas B. Edsall, “Trump Is Trying to Bend Reality to His Will”, in New York Times[1]:
- The authors found that human capital, including learning skills, accounted for “61.2, 62.4, and 66.0 percent of the variation in lifetime earnings, lifetime wealth, and lifetime utility” — a measure of life satisfaction.
Translations
[edit]stock of competencies
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Further reading
[edit]- human capital on Wikipedia.Wikipedia