"Human capital is a concept used by economists to designate personal attributes considered useful in the production process."
This subfield considers the impact of education, skills, training, and experience on labor productivity and wages.
"It encompasses employee knowledge, skills, know-how, good health, and education."
"Human capital has a substantial impact on individual earnings."
"Research indicates that human capital investments have high economic returns throughout childhood and young adulthood."
"Companies can invest in human capital, for example, through education and training, enabling improved levels of quality and production."
"The 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics was jointly awarded to Paul Romer, who founded the modern innovation-driven approach to understanding economic growth."
"The new concept of task-specific human capital was coined in 2004 by Robert Gibbons, an economist at MIT, and Michael Waldman, an economist at Cornell University."
"The concept emphasizes that in many cases, human capital is accumulated specific to the nature of the task (or, skills required for the task)."
"The human capital accumulated for the task is valuable to many firms requiring the transferable skills."
"This concept can be applied to job-assignment, wage dynamics, tournament, promotion dynamics inside firms, etc."