Overview
This timely book evaluates international human capital policies, offering a comparative perspective on global efforts to generate new ideas and novel ways of thinking about human capital. Examining educational reforms, quality of education and links between education and socio-economic environments, chapters contrast Western experiences and perspectives with those of industrializing economies in Asia, focusing particularly on Korea and the USA. Contributors analyse trends in Korean education, including state, charter and private education, higher education and student loans and debt, and provide policy prescriptions for the improvement of higher education financing in the USA. Offering theoretical insights into the relationship between socio-economic and educational benefits for children and young people, and human capital formation, further chapters consider recent empirical evidence on disadvantaged people in the USA, before broadening the scope of analysis to consider the effects of human capital on industrial structure and productivity among OECD countries. Providing a unique and incisive understanding of human capital formation in the context of education, this book lays out guidance to scholars and researchers of human capital, particularly those concentrating on policies in Korea and the USA. It will also be useful to policymakers involved in economic and education policy.
Full Product Details
Author: David Neumark ,
Yong-seong Kim ,
Sang-Hyop Lee
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781800377790
ISBN 10: 1800377797
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 23 February 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
‘In this edited volume, leading scholars in Korea and the United States provide a rich resource for the application of human capital theory and policy in both developed and developing countries. The Korean experience featured in this book will benefit experts, policymakers, and eventually, the next generation around the world.’ -- - Jin-Yeong Kim, Konkuk University, Korea ‘Education drives economic growth and social and economic mobility. This excellent volume collects original, insightful essays from leading American and Korean policy economists, focusing on education and its contributions to wellbeing. It offers many insights drawn from careful analyses of the Korean experience augmented with evidence from the U.S. and OECD.’ -- - John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
'In this edited volume, leading scholars in Korea and the United States provide a rich resource for the application of human capital theory and policy in both developed and developing countries. The Korean experience featured in this book will benefit experts, policymakers, and eventually, the next generation around the world.' -- Jin-Yeong Kim, Konkuk University, Korea 'Education drives economic growth and social and economic mobility. This excellent volume collects original, insightful essays from leading American and Korean policy economists, focusing on education and its contributions to wellbeing. It offers many insights drawn from careful analyses of the Korean experience augmented with evidence from the U.S. and OECD.' -- John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
'In this edited volume, leading scholars in Korea and the United States provide a rich resource for the application of human capital theory and policy in both developed and developing countries. The Korean experience featured in this book will benefit experts, policymakers, and eventually, the next generation around the world.' -- Jin-Yeong Kim, Konkuk University, Korea 'Education drives economic growth and social and economic mobility. This excellent volume collects original, insightful essays from leading American and Korean policy economists, focusing on education and its contributions to wellbeing. It offers many insights drawn from careful analyses of the Korean experience augmented with evidence from the USA and OECD.' -- John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
Author Information
Edited by David Neumark, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, US, Yong-seong Kim, Professor, Korea University of Technology and Education, South Korea and Sang-Hyop Lee, Senior Fellow, East-West Center and Professor, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, US
