Human Capital Developments an Interdisciplinary Approach for Individual, Organization Advancement and Economic Improvement

Heterogeneous Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Organization

An Explanatory Model for Individual Performance Based on a Commitment Human Resource Approach

Enhancing employee performance is of great concern among state organizations. The purpose of this article is to study the impact of perceived committed HRM on individual performance with the mediating roles of job stress and job commitment and the moderating roles of job skills and perceived supervisor support among the employees of the Education Department of Qazvin Province. Based on Morgan’s...

An Economic Approach to Cultural Capital

This paper introduces a sociological notion of cultural capital into economics. This is modeled as an infinitely repeated game in which the likelihood of future play (i.e. discount factor) is a function of group specific human capital investments made by the agents before the interactions begin. It is shown that: (1) some individuals expected to make group-specific human capital investments are...

An Economic Approach to Social Capital*

A standard optimal investment model can be used to analyse an individual’s decision to accumulate social capital. We analyse six facts that support the predictions of this individualbased approach: (1) social capital first rises and then falls with age, (2) social capital declines with expected mobility, (3) social capital rises in occupations with greater returns to social skills, (4) social c...

AIDS and Economic Growth: A Human Capital Approach

It is estimated that by 2001 20 million people had died from AIDS, which is now the world’s fourth biggest cause of death. While the highest prevalence and death rates and number of infected persons are reported for sub-Saharan Africa, where life expectancies at birth are declining rapidly and infant mortality rates are increasing, there is evidence that the epidemic is accelerating in Asia and...