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Human Resources and Social Policy

In: Human Resources, Employment and Development Volume 2: Concepts, Measurement and Long-Run Perspective

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  • Hans Peter Widmaier

    (University of Regensburg)

Abstract

A quick first appraisal of the human-capital approach serves to show its methodological individualism. It is not individual investment decisions that determine the propensity to acquire qualifications, but the following socio-political factors: (i) a propensity to acquire a class-specific qualification or education depending on social origin (which means a rigid reproduction of either the class structure or a given social structure); (ii) the class- or social-structure-specific teaching in terms of method and content (within the context of a bourgeois-educational system); (iii) a politically determined supply of educational facilities. Thus the alternative approach presented here starts from the existence of basic economic, social, and educational needs which are socially determined and fulfilled under the restrictive social conditions of the welfare state. Social and educational goods are regarded as political goods, that is both the level and structure of these goods are determined by non-market factors through the political system (collective action, democratic action, bureaucratic action).

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  • Hans Peter Widmaier, 1983. "Human Resources and Social Policy," International Economic Association Series, in: Paul Streeten & Harry Maier (ed.), Human Resources, Employment and Development Volume 2: Concepts, Measurement and Long-Run Perspective, chapter 14, pages 295-309, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-17203-0_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17203-0_14
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