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Research and development as a driver of innovation and economic growth; case of developing economies
Ayusha Fayyaz, Zoltan Bartha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19413 https://

Research and development as a driver of innovation and economic growth; case of developing economies
The goal of this research is to uncover the channels through which research and development (R&D) impacts economic growth in developing countries. The study employed nine variables from three broader categories in the World Economic Forum database, each covering 32 countries from the lower-middle-income group for the year 2019. The theoretical framework is based on the R&D ecosystem, which includes components such as Institutions, Human capital, Capital market, R&D, and Innovation. Each of thes…

Overview of the TalentCLEF 2025: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management
Luis Gasco, Hermenegildo Fabregat, Laura Garc\'ia-Sardi\~na, Paula Estrella, Daniel Deniz, Alvaro Rodrigo, Rabih Zbib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13275

Overview of the TalentCLEF 2025: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management
Advances in natural language processing and large language models are driving a major transformation in Human Capital Management, with a growing interest in building smart systems based on language technologies for talent acquisition, upskilling strategies, and workforce planning. However, the adoption and progress of these technologies critically depend on the development of reliable and fair models, properly evaluated on public data and open benchmarks, which have so far been unavailable in t…

Human Capital Visualization using Speech Amount during Meetings
Ekai Hashimoto, Takeshi Mizumoto, Kohei Nagira, Shun Shiramatsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02075 https://

Human Capital Visualization using Speech Amount during Meetings
In recent years, many companies have recognized the importance of human resources and are investing in human capital to revitalize their organizations and enhance internal communication, thereby fostering innovation. However, conventional quantification methods have mainly focused on readily measurable indicators without addressing the fundamental role of conversations in human capital. This study focuses on routine meetings and proposes strategies to visualize human capital by analyzing speech…

Signs on Capital Crescent Trail next to Kenwood. (Neighborhood that led successful fight to partially reverse road diet on Little Falls Parkway, road where prior to road diet cyclists & pedestrians crossing on trail were repeatedly hit, one killed, by drivers.)

The Human Capital Ontology (Extended Abstract)
Shane Babcock, Maxwell Farrington, John Gugliotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21175 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

The Human Capital Ontology (Extended Abstract)
The Human Capital Ontology (HCO) is an ontology that represents data standards maintained and employed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to represent Human Capital Operations and to classify job positions. The HCO is an extension of the Common Core Ontologies and the upper level Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). HCO provides representation of OPM Nature of Action (NOA) codes that are used to describe human resource personnel actions. HCO also represents Occupational Groups and Job Families…

The Trump administration abdicated the safety and legal fates of the eight men,
only one of whom is South Sudanese,
to the East African nation.
The men were transported to a hotel in South Sudan’s capital, Juba,
where they are under government supervision, according to Edmund Yakani,
a longtime human rights defender in South Sudan and executive director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, or CEPO. 

Trump Administration Expels Eight Men to War-Torn “Third Country” South Sudan
The Supreme Court is helping Trump expand "third country" deportation — and restrict immigrants’ rights to object for fear of torture.

Aggregating Epigenetic Clocks to Study Human Capital Formation
Giorgia Menta, Pietro Biroli, Divya Mehta, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Deborah Cobb-Clark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14422

Aggregating Epigenetic Clocks to Study Human Capital Formation
Epigenetics is the study of how people's behavior and environments influence the way their genes are expressed, even though their DNA sequence is itself unchanged. By aggregating age-related epigenetic markers, epigenetic 'clocks' have become the leading tool for studying biological aging. We make an important contribution by developing a novel, integrated measure of epigenetic aging--the Multi EpiGenetic Age (MEGA) clock--which combines several existing epigenetic clocks to reduce measurement …

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It’s a political timebomb
"While housing lies at the heart of political disillusionment today, it is for the same reason becoming a primary trigger for mobilisation across Europe. In October 2024, 150,000 protesters marched through the streets of Madrid demanding action. Some governments, including Denmark and the Netherlands, are introducing policies to deter speculators. But real estate capital continues to hold the…

Sam Altman: "What if an inhuman AI took control of the world by manipulating people's behavior but its core directive was to make paper clips and it burned down the planet to do that? This is so scary and it's a real thing you should be worried about!"
Governments: "Oh boy that's scary we'll make special rules to invest in your company so you can save us from this frightening possibility. Will we restrict or discourage AI use/development? Haha no that would be foolish!"
Me: "What if an inhuman handful of corporate charters took control of the world by manipulating human behavior but their core directive was to maximize venture capital and they burned down the planet to do that? ..."
Governments (sponsored by said corporations): "Send in the SWAT teams now, this idea is dangerous!"

Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of Early-Life Economic Conditions
Ruijun Hou (Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, School of Economics, University of Bristol), Samuel Baker (School of Economics, University of Bristol), Stephanie von Hinke (School of Economics, University of Bristol, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Institute for the Study of Labor), Hans H. Sievertsen (The Danish Center for Social Science Research, VIVE, Institute for the Study of …

Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of Early-Life Economic Conditions
We study the long-term health and human capital impacts of local economic conditions experienced during the first 1,000 days of life. We combine historical data on monthly unemployment rates in urban England and Wales 1952-1967 with data from the UK Biobank on later-life outcomes. Leveraging variation in unemployment driven by national industry-specific shocks weighted by industry's importance in each area, we find no evidence that small, common fluctuations in local economic conditions during …

Secondary Bounded Rationality: A Theory of How Algorithms Reproduce Structural Inequality in AI Hiring
Jia Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09233 https://…

Secondary Bounded Rationality: A Theory of How Algorithms Reproduce Structural Inequality in AI Hiring
AI-driven recruitment systems, while promising efficiency and objectivity, often perpetuate systemic inequalities by encoding cultural and social capital disparities into algorithmic decision making. This article develops and defends a novel theory of secondary bounded rationality, arguing that AI systems, despite their computational power, inherit and amplify human cognitive and structural biases through technical and sociopolitical constraints. Analyzing multimodal recruitment frameworks, we …

Dynamic Asset Pricing with {\alpha}-MEU Model
Jiacheng Fan, Xue Dong He, Ruocheng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04093 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04093

Dynamic Asset Pricing with α-MEU Model
We study a dynamic asset pricing problem in which a representative agent is ambiguous about the aggregate endowment growth rate and trades a risky stock, human capital, and a risk-free asset to maximize her preference value of consumption represented by the α-maxmin expected utility model. This preference model is known to be dynamically inconsistent, so we consider intra-personal equilibrium strategies for the representative agent and define the market equilibrium as the one in which the stra…

Flexible estimation of skill formation models
Antonia Antweiler, Joachim Freyberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18995 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18995

Flexible estimation of skill formation models
This paper examines estimation of skill formation models, a critical component in understanding human capital development and its effects on individual outcomes. Existing estimators are either based on moment conditions and only applicable in specific settings or rely on distributional approximations that often do not align with the model. Our method employs an iterative likelihood-based procedure, which flexibly estimates latent variable distributions and recursively incorporates model restric…

Orchestrating the Implementation of the Smart City
Filippo Marchesani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12267 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.122…

Orchestrating the Implementation of the Smart City
This chapter explores the six core dimensions of smart cities (i.e. smart economy, mobility, environment, people, living, and governance) emphasizing their interdependence and the need for holistic orchestration. Building on Giffinger et al. (2007) and subsequent literature, it argues that integrating these dimensions is crucial for sustainable urban development. ICT plays a key enabling role but must be complemented by human and social capital. Through institutional examples, such as the creat…

Cash and Cognition: The Impact of Transfer Timing on Standardized Test Performance and Human Capital
Axel Eizmendi Larrinaga, Germ\'an Reyes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21393

Cash and Cognition: The Impact of Transfer Timing on Standardized Test Performance and Human Capital
This paper shows that the timing of monetary transfers to low-income families affects students' cognitive performance on high-stakes standardized tests. We combine administrative records from the world's largest conditional cash transfer program with college admission exam results of 185,000 high school students from beneficiary families. Exploiting random variation in payment dates, we find that receiving the transfer in the days preceding the exam increases test scores by 0.01 standard deviat…

Training for Obsolescence? The AI-Driven Education Trap
Andrew J. Peterson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19625

Training for Obsolescence? The AI-Driven Education Trap
Artificial intelligence simultaneously transforms human capital production in schools and its demand in labor markets. Analyzing these effects in isolation can lead to a significant misallocation of educational resources. We model an educational planner whose decision to adopt AI is driven by its teaching productivity, failing to internalize AI's future wage-suppressing effect on those same skills. Our core assumption, motivated by a pilot survey, is that there is a positive correlation between…