The objectives of this research project were to seek economic theory under which the rate of return and manpower requirement approach are logically consistent with one another and to use this to interpret and explain the empirical results in Indonesia. The rate of return analysis was conducted...

This study consists of basic research on rates of return to higher education in Indonesia. Four different techniques to estimate rates of return are employed: the pure internal rate of return, the Mincer earnings function, the Cobb-Douglas production function, and the nested-CES production...

The central theme of this thesis is the role of human capital as a major source of economic growth and reduced inequality of personal income distribution. This thesis develops a model of economic growth based upon human capital theory and the "capital-skill complementarity hypothesis". Using a...

The central focus of this research is to explore the role of human capital as a source of economic growth in Korea. This paper considers the relation of education to per-capita growth in the medium term in seven East-Asian countries. This includes in addition to basic education the relation of...