human capital en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The stock of competencies, knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, cognitive abilities, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
The authors found that human capital, including learning skills, accounted for “61.2, 62.4, and 66.0 percent of the variation in lifetime earnings, lifetime wealth, and lifetime utility” — a measure of life satisfaction.
2020 July 28, Thomas B. Edsall, “Trump Is Trying to Bend Reality to His Will”, in New York Times:
Coordinates
social capital · cultural capital
Relateds
human resources · human development
Translations (23)
de Humankapital (stock of competencies) · ms modal insan (stock of competencies) · ru челове́ческий капита́л (stock of competencies) · es capital humano (stock of competencies) · pl kapitał ludzki (stock of competencies) · sv humankapital (stock of competencies) · fi inhimillinen pääoma (stock of competencies) · fi henkinen pääoma (stock of competencies) · cmn 人力资本 (stock of competencies) · id modal insani (stock of competencies) · eo homa kapitalo (stock of competencies) · sl človeški kapital (stock of competencies) · sk ľudský kapitál (stock of competencies) · is mannauður (stock of competencies) · sw mtaji wa watu (stock of competencies) · hy մարդկային կապիտալ (stock of competencies) · tr beşeri sermaye (stock of competencies) · cmn 人力資本 /人力资本 (stock of competencies) · pt capital humano (stock of competencies) · uk людськи́й капіта́л (stock of competencies) · cs lidský kapitál (stock of competencies) · it capitale umano (stock of competencies) · fr capital humain (stock of competencies)