Human capital policy : reducing inequality, boosting mobility and productivity

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Human capital policy : reducing inequality, boosting mobility and productivity

Title remainder

reducing inequality, boosting mobility and productivity

Statement of responsibility

edited by David Neumark, Yong-seong Kim, Sang-Hyop Lee

Contributor

• Lee, Sang-Hyop
• Kim, Yong-seong
• Neumark, David

Editor

• Neumark, David
• Lee, Sang-Hyop
• Kim, Yong-seong

Subject

• Economic development
• Education and state
• Equality
• Human capital
• Korea -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
• Korea -- Economic policy
• United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
• United States -- Economic policy

Language

eng

Summary

This timely book evaluates international human capital policies, offering a comparative perspective on global efforts to generate new ideas and novel ways of thinking about human capital. Examining educational reforms, quality of education and links between education and socio-economic environments, chapters contrast Western experiences and perspectives with those of industrializing economies in Asia, focusing particularly on Korea and the USA. Contributors analyse trends in Korean education, including state, charter and private education, higher education and student loans and debt, and provide policy prescriptions for the improvement of higher education financing in the USA. Offering theoretical insights into the relationship between socio-economic and educational benefits for children and young people, and human capital formation, further chapters consider recent empirical evidence on disadvantaged people in the USA, before broadening the scope of analysis to consider the effects of human capital on industrial structure and productivity among OECD countries. Providing a unique and incisive understanding of human capital formation in the context of education, this book lays out guidance to scholars and researchers of human capital, particularly those concentrating on policies in Korea and the USA. It will also be useful to policymakers involved in economic and education policy. --

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• KDI/EWC series on economic policy

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Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

KDI/EWC series on economic policy