scholarly journals Sustainable Economic Development and Human Capital

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Gaetano Lisi

In this theoretical paper the key role of human capital for a sustainable economic development is introduced into a simplified version of the green Solow model. The main result of this integration is the derivation of a kind of environmental Kuznets curve.

Author(s):  
Derick R. C. Almeida ◽  
João A. S. Andrade ◽  
Adelaide Duarte ◽  
Marta Simões

AbstractThis paper examines human capital inequality and how it relates to earnings inequality in Portugal using data from Quadros de Pessoal for the period 1986–2017. The objective is threefold: (i) show how the distribution of human capital has evolved over time; (ii) investigate the association between human capital inequality and earnings inequality; and (iii) analyse the role of returns to schooling, together with human capital inequality, in the explanation of earnings inequality. Our findings suggest that human capital inequality, computed based on the distribution of average years of schooling of employees working in the Portuguese private labour market, records a positive trend until 2007 and decreases from this year onwards, suggesting the existence of a Kuznets curve of education relating educational attainment levels and education inequality. Based on the decomposition of a Generalized Entropy index (Theil N) for earnings inequality, we observe that inequality in the distribution of human capital plays an important role in the explanation of earnings inequality, although this role has become less important over the last decade. Using Mincerian earnings regressions to estimate the returns to schooling together with the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of real hourly earnings we confirm that there are two important forces associated with the observed decrease in earnings inequality: a reduction in education inequality and compressed returns to schooling, mainly in tertiary education.


Author(s):  
Oleksandra Mazina ◽  
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Serhii Rohoznyi ◽  
Olena Kareva ◽  
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The key factor of sustainable economic development is investment support for human capital development aimed at generating innovative knowledge, professional skills, support and development of abilities and talents, qualitative human characteristics without which economic and social growth is excluded. The study of human capital and the right to use it as objects of an accounting system designed to provide reliable information to users will help society to control the process of human development as a core value and driving force in achieving sustainable economic development from the micro to the global level. In this study, the methods for assessing human capital as an object of accounting «The right to use human capital» are applied according to the methodology of the International Financial Reporting Standard 16 "Lease". The condition for applying the methodology of this standard is the analogy with the employment contract between the business entity and the employee with the terms of the lease agreement. The measurement of such an asset is based on the initial measurement of the lease liability, which is calculated as the present value of future lease payments. Such an asset is subject to straight-line amortization over the life of the contract. Additional investment in human capital at the start of a contract, or in the process of execution, increases the value of the Right to Use Human Capital. To calculate the initial cost of an asset and its depreciation during the term of the employment contract, you can use the existing mathematical methods from the standard list of the EXCEL office program. In this study, using a conditional example of an employment contract for a period of five years, a minimum wage of UAH 6,000 and a discount rate of 7%, the calculation of the initial cost of the «Right to use human capital» is provided.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbo Liu ◽  
Hanho Kim ◽  
Shuanglu Liang ◽  
Oh-Sang Kwon

This study examines the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis by adopting a country’s ecological footprint as an indicator of environmental degradation in three East Asian countries: Japan, Korea, and China. During the development process, countries intend to balance between stabilizing export demand and maintaining sustainable economic improvement in the context of deteriorating global warming and climate change. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (henceforth, EKC) was originally developed to estimate the correlation between environment condition and economic development. In this paper, we started from the EKC model and adopted an Error Correction Methodology (henceforth, ECM) to estimate the EKC relationships in Japan, Korea (two developed countries), and China (a developing country) over the period of 1990 to 2013. Besides this, instead of only using Gross Domestic Product (henceforth, GDP), two subdivisions of trade diversification—export product diversification and export market diversification—are introduced as proxy variables for economic development in rectification of the EKC. The results demonstrate that both Korea and Japan satisfy the EKC theory by demonstrating an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic development and ecological footprint, while analysis based on data from China does not display the same tendency. For both export product diversification and market diversification, the more diversified the country’s export is, the bigger its ecological footprint. The policy implications of this econometric outcome are also discussed.


Energy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 516-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakiru Adebola Solarin ◽  
Muhammad Shahbaz ◽  
Shawkat Hammoudeh

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