Effects of Human Capital on Profits of Russia’s Enterprises and Organizations
Through econometric models construction the author evaluates the effects of capital-labor ratio and human capital, where the latter is characterized by the employees’ educational level, on profits of enterprises and organizations, operating in Russia. In 2009 the capital-labor ratio and the human capital, as estimated by the employees’ educational level, could be considered responsible for no less, than 39% of profitability of enterprises and organizations. For the most part this effect is due to the capital-labor ratio, while the lesser, though essential part of the said effect is due to the employees human capital. It is shown, that the elasticity of profit in terms of employees human capital exceeds manifold the profit elasticity in terms of capital-labor ratio, meaning that the effect of changes in human capital level on the labor productivity exceeds manifold that of changes in capital-labor ratio. Therefore, to enhance the human capital through better education of employees is more beneficial, than to increase investments in basic capital assets.