FUNCTIONAL relationships improve communities. An overall indicator of the quality of the relationships within a community is the century-old concept of social capital. Social capital has been defined as “those features of social structures—such as interpersonal trust and norms of reciprocity and mutual aid–which act as resources for individuals and facilitate collective action.” Social capital ...

This study focuses on Livelihood Capital Index ( LCI ) as a useful tool in assessing the livelihood assets of rubber-based agroforestry farm households. It evaluates systematically all capitals rubber households through developing an LCI. A total 10 variables were broadly classified into five capital indicators namely; human, financial, physical, natural, and social. Data collected from 220 que...

This paper aims to explore the mechanism of university intellectual capital on the performance of technology innovation of university by empirical research. On the base of theoretical analysis between the human capital, structure capital and relationship capital of university intellectual capital as well as its role on the performance of technology innovation, six hypotheses were proposed and a...

We review the existing literature on measurement of human capital. Broadly speaking, economists have proposed three approaches to constructing capital measures—the indicator approach, cost and income approach. Studies employing approach used single measures such as average years schooling or indexes multiple measures. The values investments based spending. by looking forward increment expected ...

In neo-classical studies, we often speak of the concept human capital. It is considered as a full-fledged component in economic growth equation and barometer governance countries vis-à-vis this component. As such, it has been subject much theoretical empirical research. However, several approaches have used to measure territorial capital stock country at given time, which biases results obtaine...

This paper analyses the general equilibrium implications on public education policies in an economy with heterogeneous agents, human capital investment and capital-skill complementarity. Human capital is accumulated through private and public education inputs. Workers choose between being goods workers or human capital workers and are taxed to support public education. The government hires huma...

The present descriptive survey aims to analyze sustainable rural livelihood in Langarud County of Guilan province, Iran. The statistical population was composed of all rural people in this county (N=37904). Convenience sampling used to determine sample size (n=180). They were selected by proportionally allocated random sampling method. The research instrument was a self-designed questionnaire w...

The relationship between physical capital. human capital and the distribution of turnings is examined empirically using cross-sectional microdata within SklSAs. Comprtrarive advantage in workers and a scale-of-resources effect among firms is predicted to lead to a rel~ti~)n~hip between capital and earnings. The level of earnings is found to be positively related to capital intensity and nrgntiv...