scholarly journals Health capital provision and human capital accumulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-650
Author(s):  
Leonid V Azarnert
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Endogenous Fertility ◽  
Public Provision ◽  
Health Capital

Abstract This article analyses the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility, private investment in children’s health and education, and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with an additional factor that affects children’s human capital, which is health. I analyse the overall society-wide effect of public policy intervention and derive a condition that determines precisely whether public provision of free health services increases or decreases the average level of human capital in the society.

scholarly journals TRENDS OF HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION IN UKRAINE DURING THE PERIOD OF INDEPENDENCE

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
Oksana Zakharova
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Life Expectancy At Birth ◽  
Socio Economic Development

The article is devoted to the characteristics of trends in the accumulation of human capital in Ukraine over the period of independence. The purpose of the article is to study the key factors that caused the existing trends in the accumulation of human capital during the period of independence of Ukraine. The novelty of the study lies in the application of a systematic approach to establishing the influence of the main factors on the accumulation of human capital in the country over the past twenty years.The expediency of the study of factors that directly affect the course of the processes of accumulating human capital at regional and national levels has been substantiated. The relationship between the quality of life of the population, the socio-economic development of the country and the volume of human capital has been established.The conditions (the number and structure of the current population; the number of live births and deaths per year and per 1000 people of the population; natural population decline, the number of marriages registered per year; total annual fertility rate, average life expectancy at birth), typical for Ukraine at the time of its independence in 1991, in the dynamics of demographic and socio-economic processes in Ukraine during the period of its independence have been analyzed.The tendencies that have been achieved by Ukraine in the nineteen years of independence in the field of socio-economic development, such as: the annual decline in the population and the total fertility rate; an increase in the mortality rate of the population; drop in GDP per capita and human development index are established. The key aspects of stabilizing the situation in the field of human capital accumulation in Ukraine, which should be based on the intensive development of the business environment, improving the quality of education, and comprehensive social protection of the population, have been substantiated.

Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-266
Author(s):  
George J. Borjas ◽  
Barry R. Chiswick
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Accumulation Process ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Ethnic Capital

Assuming that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process, this chapter analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic environment in which parents make their investments, or “ethnic capital.” The empirical evidence reveals that the skills of today's generation depend not only on the skills of their parents, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parents’ generation.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF INCREASING RETIREMENT AGE ON HEALTH SERVICES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BRAZIL

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
André Berardo Coelho ◽  
Nelson Leitão Paes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health Care Production

This paper uses the Zon and Muysken (2001) model to investigate the effect of increasing the retirement age on health care production, human capital accumulation, and economic growth. All three sectors are interrelated, since the overall level of health affects both workers and the accumulation of human capital, while a higher level of human capital is related to better quality of health. And, finally, health and human capital affect the output of the economy. From the economic growth point of view the results seem to be positive. Increasing labor availability raises productivity in the health sector, which ultimately improves labor productivity, resulting in increased capital accumulation and economic growth. On the other hand, it is estimated a reduction in the propensity to consume and a smaller portion of the labor force allocated in the health sector.

scholarly journals MIGRATION, CONGESTION, AND GROWTH

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 3035-3064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid V. Azarnert
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Endogenous Fertility ◽  
Advanced Economy ◽  
The World

This article analyzes the effect of migration from a less advanced economy to a more advanced economy on economic growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration increases fertility and reduces human capital in the source economy. At the same time, in-migration reduces fertility and can increase or decrease the average level of human capital in the host economy. I show how migration affects the inter-temporal evolution of human capital in the world economy. I also demonstrate that a tax imposed on immigrants in the host economy can increase human capital accumulation in the receiving and sending economies and the world as a whole.

A system of indicators to assess the value of human capital under the influence of interregional migration processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 539-562
Author(s):  
Nikolai N. MINAEV ◽  
Ekaterina А. ZHAROVA
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Interregional Migration ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
The Impact

Subject. This article discusses the issues of human capital accumulation. Objectives. The article aims to develop a system of indicators for assessing the value of human capital, taking into account the impact of interregional migration processes. Methods. For the study, we used the methods of analysis, synthesis, modeling, indicative planning, some mathematical methods, and the systems approach. Results. The article identifies factors that influence the changes in the accumulation and quality of human capital, and it presents developed parameters for assessing regional human capital with thresholds that help classify regions. Relevance. The results of the study can be used by the executive authorities when developing strategic planning documents and regulating migration flows. This will help balance the regional development and reduce the level of differentiation of regions.

scholarly journals THE GREAT TRANSITION: IMPLICATIONS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY FOR THE QUALITY–QUANTITY TRADE-OFF IN CHILDREN-REARING

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (05) ◽  
pp. 1155-1174
Author(s):  
FREDERIC TOURNEMAINE ◽  
CHRISTOPHER TSOUKIS
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Overlapping Generations ◽  
Poverty Trap ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Endogenous Fertility ◽  
Overlapping Generations Model ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Great Transition

We develop an overlapping-generations model with human capital accumulation and endogenous fertility containing a pollution externality. We study the effects of an environmental policy on individuals’ quality–quantity trade-off on children. In a Malthusian poverty trap, we show that a more stringent policy induces a reduction of fertility. In a state of perpetual development, we find a similar result and show that higher environmental quality, growth and welfare are compatible goals. Moreover, we show that the policy can be used as an instrument for initiating a country’s great transition from a state of poverty to a state of development.

Human Capital Accumulation and Resource Abundance

2011 ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
O. Vasilieva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Harmful Effect ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Resource Abundance ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Crowd Out

Does resource abundance positively affect human capital accumulation? Or, alternatively, does it «crowd out» the human capital leading to the deterioration of economic growth? The paper gives an overview of the relevant literature and discusses both theoretical and empirical results obtained regarding the connection between human capital accumulation and resource abundance. It shows that despite some theoretical predictions about the harmful effect of resource abundance on human capital accumulation, unambiguous evidence of such impact that would be robust with respect to the change of resource abundance parameter has not been obtained yet.

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