Human Capital, the Organization of Production, and Economic Development - HUMANDEV

人力资本、生产组织和经济发展 - HUMANDEV

• 批准号: EP/Y037340/1
• 负责人: Federico Rossi
• 金额: $ 156.96万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY037340%2F1
• 关键词: Human; Capital; Organization; Production; Economic

Human capital is a central ingredient of the development process. While the literature has made progress in measuring the variation of human skills across countries and over time, we still have a limited understanding of the channels through which they shape the organisation of production and economic development. This is complicated by the growing realization that human capital is a multidimensional object, given the variety of skills embodied in workers on one hand, and the heterogeneity across firms, occupations, sectors, and countries in their utilization on the other.HUMANDEV will leverage micro-level data from multiple countries and novel theoretical frameworks to shed light on the role of human capital for the past and future of economic development. The project is structured around three Work Packages, studying how the accumulation and utilization of different types of skills is shaped by and can facilitate the adaptation to some of the most pressing challenges faced by the global economy: population ageing (Work Package 1), climate change (Work Package 2), and the reallocation of workers across economic activities (Work Package 3). Each Work Package will involve three complementary contributions:1. Collecting and harmonizing micro-level data from countries at different levels of development to construct novel facts on the accumulation and utilization of human skills in a variety of contexts.2. Developing new theoretical frameworks to provide a structural interpretation of the empirical facts.3. Estimating the key parameters of these models and implementing counterfactual exercises to assess the effects of different economic scenarios and policy proposals.The findings of HUMANDEV will shed light on the present and future contribution of human capital to economic development, and on how policy can help equip labour forces in developing countries for the impending socio-economic transformations.

人力资本是发展进程的核心要素。虽然文献在衡量人类技能在不同国家和不同时间的变化方面取得了进展，但我们对它们塑造生产组织和经济发展的渠道仍然了解有限。由于人们越来越认识到人力资本是一个多维对象，一方面工人所体现的技能多种多样，另一方面企业、职业、部门和国家之间在利用人力资本方面存在异质性，这使得情况变得更加复杂。HUMANDEV将利用来自多个国家的微观层面数据和新颖的理论框架来阐明人力资本在经济发展的过去和未来中的作用。该项目围绕三个工作包展开，研究不同类型技能的积累和利用如何受到全球经济面临的一些最紧迫挑战的影响，并有助于适应这些挑战：人口老龄化（工作包1）、气候变化（工作包2）和工人在经济活动中的重新分配（工作包3）。每个工作包将涉及三个互补的贡献：1。从不同发展水平的国家收集和协调微观数据，以构建关于各种背景下人类技能积累和利用的新事实。发展新的理论框架，为经验事实提供结构性解释。估计这些模型的关键参数，并进行反事实练习，以评估不同经济情景和政策建议的影响，HUMANDEV的研究结果将揭示人力资本对经济发展的当前和未来贡献，以及政策如何帮助发展中国家的劳动力为即将到来的社会经济转型做好准备。