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human capital

human capital noun: the stock of competencies, knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, cognitive abilities, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.

Noun

human capital (uncountable)

  1. The stock of competencies, knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, cognitive abilities, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
    • The authors found that human capital, including learning skills, accounted for “61.2, 62.4, and 66.0 percent of the variation in lifetime earnings, lifetime wealth, and lifetime utility” — a measure of life satisfaction.2020 July 28, Thomas B. Edsall, “Trump Is Trying to Bend Reality to His Will”, in New York Times

human capital meaning in Malay and Indonesian

human capital in Malay

stock of competencies
modal insan

human capital in Indonesian

stock of competencies
modal insani

Questions about human capital

What does human capital mean?
Human capital means the stock of competencies, knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, cognitive abilities, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
What is human capital in Malay?
Human capital in Malay is modal insan. See Human capital meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is human capital?
Human capital is a noun.

Words near human capital in the dictionary

  1. human burritos
  2. human calculator
  3. human calculators
  4. human cannonball
  5. human cannonballs
  6. human capital
  7. human chain
  8. human chains
  9. human chattel
  10. human cheese
  11. human chorionic gonadotropin

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