scholarly journals Sectoral analysis of Human Capital Investment, Labour Productivity and Poverty in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Aderopo Adediyan ◽  
Osayuwamen Lillian Omorenuwa
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Human Capital Investment ◽  
Labour Productivity Growth ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
First Case ◽  
Short Run

This paper is on the analysis of human capital investment and labour productivity in a situation of a rising incidence of poverty in Nigeria on a sectoral basis between 1986 and 2019. Adopting the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) technique, three sectors were considered in the analysis: the agricultural, industrial and service sectors. Key in the results of the study is in two folds. In the first case, there is a direct positive effect of human capital investment on labour productivity, and a direct negative impact of poverty on labour productivity across the three sectors. In the second case, poverty decreases the contribution of human capital investment to labour productivity growth in the agricultural and industrial sectors in the short run only. But there is insufficient evidence on this in the service sector.  

scholarly journals Do Human Capital Investment and Technological Innovation Have a Permanent Effect on Population Health? An Asymmetric Analysis of BRICS Economies

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang-Gao Hu ◽  
Li-Peng Yao
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Human Capital Investment ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run

This study examines the asymmetric impact of human capital investment, and technological innovation on population health from the years spanning from 1991 to 2019, by using a panel of the BRICS countries. For this purpose, we have employed the PMG panel NARDL approach, which captures the long-run and short-run dynamics of the concerned variables. The empirical results show that human capital investment and technological innovation indeed happen to exert asymmetric effects on the dynamics of health in BRICS countries. Findings also reveal that increased human capital investment and technological innovation have positive effects on health, while the deceased human capital investment and technological innovation tend to have negative effects on population health in the long run. Based on these revelations, some policy recommendations have been proposed for BRICS economies.

scholarly journals The risk-return trade-off in human capital investment

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 971-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Christiansen ◽  
Juanna Schröter Joensen ◽  
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Human Capital Investment ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Risk Return
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