Education - an investment in human capital
Abstract
Formal education, personal abilities and the health state play an important role in this paper. Those are all essential constituent elements of the human capital.
In the present paper we intend to present briefly the fundamental concepts of the human capital, with an emphasis on education and abilities. We also mark out the importance of the human capital development in the purpose of maintaining the development and the motivation of the human resources, which are the main premises organizations need to capitalize. The higher education has a determinant role in the attainment of this desideratum.
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