The Contribution of Human Capital towards Economic Growth in China

Does economic growth stimulate energy consumption? The role of human capital and R&D expenditures in China

“…However, endogenous growth models consider human capital as an alternative to technological progress in the production process, which is believed to be a significant contributor to economic growth (Becker 1964, Lucas 1998, Joshua 2015. However, the role of human capital in sustainable growth, particularly in the context of environmental pollution, has not yet been fully understood empirically.…”

FDI and human capital

“…We also checked our models for potential multicollinearity with the Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) in accordance with theory that a VIF value of less than 5 does not indicate such problems (Judge et al, 1982) and we concluded that multicollinearity does not pose a problem in this dataset. 32 Results are presented in Tables 2-5 of Appendix B.…”

“…The analysis employs panel estimation and the model is estimated for EU countries for the period 2000-2012 due to data availability. To consider problems arising from heteroskedastic residuals, the robust standard error technique is used to obtain corrected estimates; multicollinearity has been tested with the variance inflation factor (VIF) and in accordance with theory that a VIF value of less than 5 does not indicate such problems (Judge et al, 1982) we concluded that multicollinearity does not pose a problem in this dataset.…”

“…In the empirical forefront, studies use different measures of human capital and most of them concentrate only on the quantity aspect of human capital, i.e. years of schooling or enrolment ratios (Barro, 2001;Krueger & Lindahl, 2001;Schatz, 2003;Joshua, 2015). Yet, measures of human capital based on attainment and enrolment data only are not sufficient to explain cross-country differences; quality differences can also be of high importance (Choi, 2015).…”

The Role of Embedded Individual Values, Belief and Attitudes and Spiritual Capital in Shaping Everyday Postsecular Organizational Culture

“…Moreover, the direction of contemporary definitions of human capital management theory (Hartog and Maassan Van der Brink, ; Burton‐Jones and Spender, ; Joshua, ) may be considered a softening and popularizing of the more scientific and empirical approaches offered by earlier theorists such as Becker () who saw human capital as a more utilitarian and uni‐dimensional ‘stock of knowledge and skills’ that directly and strategically enhanced the firm's profits. Such moves soften the harder edges of human capital theory and have aligned with a wide range of contemporary areas of theory and research including: team‐building, coaching, mentoring, responsible management, sustainability, well‐being at work and work‐life balance, meaning and identity in work lives; faith, values, religion, spirituality, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), responsible management, sustainability, well‐being, commitment, transformational leadership and business ethics (Elizur, ; Fineman, ; Russell, ; Blowfield and Murray, ; Mostovicz et al ., ; Opdebeeck and Habisch, ; Ashkanasy et al ., ; Brammer and Pavelin, ).…”