Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate further advances in human development. This paper focuses on the first channel above and finds the relationship significant. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects...

Previous scholars argue that human resource practices advance valuable knowledge what could be reflected positively on innovations. Accordingly, we empirically investigate whether human resource related practices such as top management support and regularity of employees meetings are related to...

Ukraine is faced by a devastating problem of economically active population emigration, which has reduced the labor force in the country by 5-8% in the last two years and demonstrated a negative impact on the potential Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite this, Ukraine is one of the leading...

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach...

The paper presents problems to the educational preparation of the Bulgarian population, to the forming and presence of human capital, including such with high level and quality. It focuses the attention on more important barriers to increasing the quality of the human capital of the country, as...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the positive and important role that skilled migration can have on TFP growth in the sendind countries, when diaspora effects in technology diffusion are introduced. To investigate our issue, we start from a previous paper by Vandenbussche, Aghion and Costa...

Conceptual aspects of human capital are examined in the light of intangible assets. Their growing importance in the contemporary conditions of development are outlined. A comparative characteristic and assessment of human capital, its formation and utilization in Bulgaria is made with the help...

This paper discusses some major conceptual aspects of human capital viewed in terms of intangible assets. Their increasing importance in modern conditions of development is outlined. Presented is a comparative characterization and assessment of human capital, its formation and utilization in...

China, India and Korea have come to the fore due to dynamic economic growth and particularly as new competitors on global technological markets. Their catch up process started with technology transfer in consequence of foreign direct investment, its dynamic is determined by own investment in...

This paper addresses - with the help of numerical simulation - some of the issues relating to income distribution in the context of development of an economy with an informal sector and migration of both low and high skilled workers from the rural to the urban area. A major aim has been to see...