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Meaning of Human capital | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The stock of competencies, knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, cognitive abilities, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.

uncountable

Equivalents

العربية القوى البشرية العاملة
Deutsch Humankapital
Español capital humano
Français capital humain
Íslenska mannauður
Italiano capitale umano
Português capital humano
Русский челове́ческий капита́л
Svenska humankapital
Kiswahili mtaji wa watu
Українська людськи́й капіта́л

Examples

“The authors found that human capital, including learning skills, accounted for “61.2, 62.4, and 66.0 percent of the variation in lifetime earnings, lifetime wealth, and lifetime utility” — a measure of life satisfaction.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

human chain human chattel human cheese human chorionic gonadotropin human chorionic somatomammotropin human composting

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