Measuring Human Capital in Europe and Central Asia

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli ; Torre, Ivan

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: HUMAN CAPITAL;    TERTIARY EDUCATION;    BASIC EDUCATION;    HIGHER EDUCATION;    EDUCATION QUALITY;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-9458
RP-ID  :  WPS9458

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper outlines an extension of theHuman Capital Index that addresses the specific challengesin education and health faced by countries in Europe andCentral Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, asjob markets today demand higher levels of human capital thanin the past. As the region’s population becomes older, it isimportant that adults remain healthy to ensure productiveaging. The Europe and Central AsiaHuman Capital Index(ECA-HCI) extends the Human Capital Index by adding ameasure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to theoriginal education component, and it includes the prevalenceof three adult health risk factors -- obesity, smoking, andheavy drinking -- as an additional proxy for latent healthstatus. This extension of the Human Capital Index could alsobe useful for assessing the state of human capital inmiddle-income countries in general.