{"product_id":"numeracy-human-capital-and-economic-growth-von-junzhai-ma","title":"Numeracy, Human-Capital and Economic Growth","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - History, grade: 3, University of Tubingen (Wirtschaftgeschichte), course: Hauptseminar \"Humankapital und Wachstum in armen und reichen Ländern\", language: English, abstract: Numeracy together with literacy is a basic element of human capital. Recently some international tests were conducted to make comparisons of the numeracy level among different countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman capital is a long term economic growth factor. To quantify human capital, various indicators are composed: adult literacy rate, school enrolment rate, etc. These human capital indicators facilitate researchers to analyze the correlation between human capital quality and economic performance of a certain economy. Age heaping, an indicator normally used in demography to check the reliability of a census, is a possible human capital indicator. It can reflect the numeracy level of the researched population. It is shown that for little educated populations, age heaping is a possible human capital indicator, which reflects the human capital level of the researched population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783668360785\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783668360785","offer_id":39430913622109,"sku":"9783668360785","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/e4a4880e-7ea2-4124-8e3b-647cf6905620.jpg?v=1778386668","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/numeracy-human-capital-and-economic-growth-von-junzhai-ma","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}