The paper traces the history of Human Capital from the earliest definitions of classical economists and the Retrospective and Prospective estimation methods . Its conception is gradually refined by giving reasons for personal and collective variability among different individuals. The Chicago School's introduction of the link between the investment in Education and Training and their remuneration represents an early milestone in this regard. Reference to the Quality of Education and personal Cognitive Skills further refines the theoretical and quantitative analysis. More recently, Heckman's introduction of the concept of Non cognitive Skills and the demonstration of their functional, empirically verifiable link with Cognitive Skills opens a new horizon of enormous scope to research.
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0375-9763
Chapter Title
La lunga storia del Capitale Umano dall’origine alle non cognitive skills
Authors
Giorgio Vittadini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.112
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919