The importance of human capital in specific digital human capital

Abstract

Nowadays Human capital is considered to be one of the most important factor of development and economic growth, aside from one of the sources of competitive advantages in the world. In order that attain highly skilled human capital, specifically digital human capital, countries should improve their labor market competitiveness and increase investments in differents areas as for example in general education, science and technology. This project analyzes the significance and the role of digital human capital and the effects and trends the migration around the world due the differences in human capital with special emphasis on highly qualified labor migration i.e. brain drain phenomenon. The purpose of the analysis was to see if the digital human capital concretely and the human capital in general was to see if it is an important point to attend in the future to the convergence the countries.