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Measuring Human Capital in Europe and Central Asia / Asli Demirguc-Kunt.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Demirguc-Kunt, Asli.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Access and Equity in Basic Education.
- Basic Education.
- Disease Control and Prevention.
- Education.
- Education For All.
- Education Indicators and Statistics.
- Education Quality.
- Health.
- Health Indicators.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Higher Education.
- Human Capital.
- Human Capital Index.
- Latent Health.
- Tertiary Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Access and Equity in Basic Education.
- Basic Education.
- Disease Control and Prevention.
- Education.
- Education For All.
- Education Indicators and Statistics.
- Education Quality.
- Health.
- Health Indicators.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Higher Education.
- Human Capital.
- Human Capital Index.
- Latent Health.
- Tertiary Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (47 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2020.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand higher levels of human capital than in the past. As the region's population becomes older, it is important that adults remain healthy to ensure productive aging. The Europe and Central AsiaHuman Capital Index (ECA-HCI) extends the Human Capital Index by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes the prevalence of three adult health risk factors - obesity, smoking, and heavy drinking - as an additional proxy for latent health status. This extension of the Human Capital Index could also be useful for assessing the state of human capital in middle-income countries in general.
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