A region’s competitiveness is the product of its creative, attractive and maintenance activities which may increase its influence, assuming that for a sustainable economic development there are needed both the existence of resources and the implementation of some policies conductive to...

This paper aims to explain if there is a link between human capital accumulation and/or formation and economic growth. In a knowledge-based economy, investing in human capital is a representative of a country’s economic power. Migration of brains or so called “brain drain” to developed...

We present in this work evidence about the relationships between human capital and wealth for seventy two countries in the world. Human capital is estimated, in monetary per capita terms, from intellectual capital approach with two types of indicators: absolute, in monetary terms, and...

The need often arises to explain and control, as much as possible, those phenomena and processes in the economy that can reflect more or less favourable situations. For that purpose, a range of efficient instruments are devised to help us explain the existing situations and eliminate (or at...

It is known that the demographic impact effects on the economy are felt after many years from the production date of the phenomenon demo-economic. Latest research accredits more than ever the idea that economic growth and development are based on human capital, creativity and innovation. This...

The current economic and financial crisis, triggered in July 2007 in the United States, has hit the world economy with an unprecedent force since the Great Depression in the '30’s. Romania, a country with few years of experience in the functioning of the market economy could not avoid the...

The paper identifies three general approaches to human capital measurement: (i)using proxies for educational variables, (ii)income-based and (iii) cost-based methods and presents a critical review of them. The measurement of human capital stock is important for assessing its impact on economic...