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ACCUMULATION CAPITAL [13 records]

Record 1 2023-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production (Economics)
  • Training of Personnel
CONT

Historical evidence shows significant returns to education for workers remaining in unskilled employment in periods of increased educational attainment... This suggests that human capital accumulation augments the productivity of workers, in addition to driving the transition to skilled employment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production (Économie)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
CONT

L'accumulation du capital humain, notamment par la formation et l'apprentissage, peut améliorer la croissance économique de la même façon que l'accumulation du capital physique [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Producción (Economía)
  • Capacitación del personal
CONT

La acumulación de capital humano es reconocida como uno de los principales factores de crecimiento económico de los países en el largo plazo.

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Record 2 2022-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production (Economics)
CONT

In early stages of the Industrial Revolution, when physical capital accumulation was the prime source of growth, inequality stimulated development by channelling resources towards individuals with a higher propensity to save. As human capital emerged as a growth engine, equality alleviated adverse effects of credit constraints on human capital accumulation, stimulating the growth process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • National Accounting
CONT

Net accumulation is gross accumulation during a period reduced by the consumption of fixed capital.

OBS

net accumulation: term extracted from the “Glossaire de l’économie” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Comptabilité nationale
CONT

Pour éviter de graves confusions lorsqu'on considère les agrégats d'épargne, il est absolument indispensable de bien distinguer que les variables sont "nettes" ou "brutes" de la consommation de capital; les variables concernées par cette distinction sont le revenu disponible l'épargne (brute ou nette) l'investissement physique et l'accumulation (brute ou nette). Nous entendons ici par "accumulation" la somme des flux d'investissement et de placements financiers au cours de l'année considerée.

OBS

accumulation nette : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
DEF

[Plan] involving a worker in receiving, in addition to wages, a share in the final profit of the business, and this accumulation of this share, or some part of it, in the capital of the business, thus gaining him the ordinary rights of and responsibilities of a shareholder.

Key term(s)
  • co-partnership
  • industrial partnership
  • industrial co-partnership
  • copartnership scheme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
DEF

Régime visant à établir une forme de propriété des entreprises caractérisée par l'accession des travailleurs soit individuellement, soit collectivement, à la propriété en devenant détenteurs d'une partie des actions du capital social.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prácticas y condiciones de trabajo
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Record 5 2001-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Finance
OBS

The facts suggest the hypothesis that capital accumulation is second to technical change in explaining rising productivity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Finances
OBS

[...] Cette approche va maintenant être complétée par une étude rapide de l'accumulation du capital, appréciée non plus seulement à travers le taux d'investissement mais à travers l'évolution du stock de capital [...]; on utilisera pour cela le taux d'accumulation, c'est-à-dire le rapport du flux d'investissement au stock de capital en début de période.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía nacional e internacional
  • Finanzas
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Record 6 2001-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
CONT

For the first 15 years, base pay was the primary source of income and capital accumulation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
CONT

Pendant les 15 premières années, le salaire de base a été la principale source de revenu et d'accumulation de capital.

Spanish

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Record 7 1998-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
OBS

[The problem of unpaid contributions] does,..., adversely affect the cash flow situation and, were it not for obvious overbudgeting, the accumulation of arrears would have a detrimental effect on the level of the Working Capital Fund.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
OBS

«Montants excédentaires» s'emploie par rapport aux ressources approuvées dans le Budget des dépenses principal (Impôt).

OBS

Le Conseil du Trésor du Canada a annoncé, le 5 février 1998, que l'équivalent français de Main Estimates devient «Budget principal des dépenses», et celui de Supplementary Estimates, «Budget supplémentaire des dépenses».

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Sector Budgeting
CONT

Increased spending on capital and military projects will continue, but have led to a rapid accumulation of both domestic and foreign public sector debt since the Gulf war.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
CONT

L'accroissement des dépenses en immobilisations et en projets militaires se poursuivra, mais il a entraîné une augmentation rapide de la dette du secteur public, aussi bien intérieure qu'envers l'étranger, depuis la guerre du Golfe.

Spanish

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Record 9 1992-10-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise

Spanish

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Record 10 1985-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
CONT

As noted earlier, society accumulates assets for future generations. Currently the concept of capital accumulation is restricted to increments in the tangible capital of enterprises and governments and increases in the housing stock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique

Spanish

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Record 11 1981-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
OBS

Historical studies suggest that, for America and the West generally, the tendency toward falling interest rates via diminishing returns has been just about canceled out by technological progress : though real wage rates have been rising, the real interest return on capital has not been generally falling in this century as would have been expected from a primitive classical analysis of capital accumulation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances

Spanish

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Record 12 1981-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
OBS

In the absence of technical change, capital accumulation takes us down the dd curve from A to B and perhaps ultimately to the Ricardian equilibrium point E at which people feel it no longer pays them to save any per cent of their incomes for enhanced future consumption.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique

Spanish

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Record 13 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

Unrequited transfers which are designed to finance the gross capital formation, other forms of accumulation, or long-term expenditures of the recipient, which are made out of the wealth or saving of the donor, or which are non-recurrent(quite irregular) for either party to the transaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Transferts non contractuels destinés à financer la formation brute de capital, les autres formes d'accumulation ou les dépenses à long terme du bénéficiaire.

Key term(s)
  • transfert de capital

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía nacional e internacional
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Conjunto de subvenciones o subsidios que se conceden por el Estado u otro ente público, con cargo a la cuenta de capital... con objeto de incrementar el volumen de inversión del agente beneficiario, o bien de financiar una parte de la misma.

PHR

transferencia de capital al extranjero.

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