this paper tries to measure and analyze the trend of indicators of labor and capital productivity as well as total factor productivity (tfp) in the economic sectors introduced in the 4th five-year-development plan for the period within 1971-2003. according to the results, the productivity indicator throughout iran has increased 0/9% on average annually and the highest growth has been in the tel...

by T. Paul Schultz Wage Gains Associated with Height as a form of Health Human Capital Abstract Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part...

background: due to the presence of radioactive minerals such as monazite, the beach sand of the west coast of kanyakumari exhibits high natural background radiation. hair is a good indicator of radionuclides in the human body. an attempt is taken to measure the 210po activity in human hair samples and the factors affecting it. material and methods: 210po activity was analysed in 47 individuals ...

Chapters 3, 4 and 5 have introduced the tradition of green national accounting that has now become well established. The basic principles of this tradition are commonly understood by most practitioners to involve accounting for the consumption and accumulation of produced, human and natural capital, assuming the different capital stocks are infinitely substitutable (weak sustainability). One pa...

intellectual capital (ic) is organizational intangible asset which is frequently associated with performance. ic is commonly categorized into three core components: human capital, structural capital and relational capital. this study takes a step further in the evolution of the ic model for the hotel industry and divides relationship capital into two categories: end customer- relationship capit...

background and objectives: working in hospital is stressful, and this may result in deviant behaviors of clinical staff and thus irreparable damages to the patients’ health. it is, therefore, crucial to empower hospital workers in managing job stress to ensure high quality of healthcare. psychological and social capitals have been shown to influence organizational behaviors of the employees. th...

the main goal of this paper is to estimate the level and distribution of human capital (hc) in tehran province, iran. in doing this we have first reviewed theoretical and empirical literature of human capital. and then we used do gum method for estimation of level and distribution of households’ human capital in tehran. the do gum method is based on three old methods of estimation. we used late...

this study was aimed at developing a method for measuring the relationship between intellectual capital and project manager competencies. intellectual capital consist human capital, structural capital and relational capital. project manager competencies have been evaluated based on ipma competence baseline (icb) and project manager competency development framework (pmcdf) includes knowledge, sk...

Abstract Human capital is a complex concept to measure given it an unobserved latent construct. Education fundamental dimension of human and thus education-based approach the one most widely used. However, international literature recommends latent-variable measuring capital. This study aims in South Africa, country experiencing extreme earnings education inequalities, using National Income Dyn...