Nominal Human Capital, Employability and Credentialing Capital Humano Nominal, Empleabilidad y Credencialismo

Abstract

Since 2006 , the chilean society have expressed various social movements around the need for changes to the education system, based primarily on the resulting social segregationdue to the financial scheme and deregulation of the quality of its basic, secondary and higher educational institutions. Within this context the concept of human capital has become the key public discussion, at least in argumentative terms, showing a variety of meanings and understandings. Beyond the plurality of meanings of human capital theory, the approach to the problems of public investment in education, generates a series of questions and conceptual gaps that prevent adequately clarify the criteria for the development of public policy in this area . This article focuses on socio-economic phenomena suffering human capital in their transition from education to the labor world.