Estimating University Human Capital through Growth Models

Marisa Civardi and Emma Zavarrone
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Marisa Civardi: University of Milano - Bicocca
Emma Zavarrone: University of Milano - Bicocca

A chapter in Effectiveness of University Education in Italy, 2007, pp 369-380 from Springer

Abstract: Summary Our paper focuses on the law of growth of the human capital deriving from the evaluation of undergraduates’ human capital due to university education. For this purpose, we introduce the definition of University Human Capital (UHC), a kind of human capital that sums up to the other kinds of human capital and that acts, for the concerned companies, as a detector of competences owned by graduates. It follows that UHC can be interpreted also as a component of the “intellectual capital” that characterizes the different kinds of enterprises. UHC individual growth trajectories are to be established by means of two-level growth models. We attempt to synthesise the law of individual UHC growth through both a logistic and a Gompertz function.

Keywords: Latent growth curves; Human capital; Specific competences; Multilevel models; Gompertz function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-1751-5_27

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