Systems Thinking to Understand National Well-Being from a Human Capital Perspective

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/89676 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/89676 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/89676 archive 353 disk0/00/01/63/30 2020-03-04 06:38:23 2021-08-27 17:32:41 2020-03-04 06:38:23 article show Eker S. 2173 0000-0003-2264-132X Ilmola-Sheppard L. 8449 Systems Thinking to Understand National Well-Being from a Human Capital Perspective pub prog_asa prog_esm prog_wat Well-being has become an important policy goal to replace gross domestic product (GDP) as an indicator of national progress. Several multidimensional metrics and indicators of well-being have been developed mostly based on the four-capital model that includes natural, economic, human and social capital. These multidimensional measures of well-being, however, are highly categorical and lack a systems perspective that focuses on underlying mechanisms of the metrics and the interconnections between them. This study aims at bringing a systems thinking approach to understanding and measuring national well-being, particularly from a human capital perspective. For this purpose, we employ a qualitative systems mapping approach and identify the direct or indirect relationships between the well-being indicators related to human capital. The results show that the human capital system is governed by several reinforcing feedback loops through economic progress, health and life expectancy, which gives a central role to human capital to enhance well-being. There are balancing loops, however, that may have adverse effects on human capital formation and well-being, for instance through migration and ageing. Future studies can focus on the other three subsystems in the four-capital model, and on quantifying the relationships between different dimensions of well-being. 2020-03-03 published Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 10.3390/su12051931 2953 132 public Sustainability 12 5 e1931 TRUE 2071-1050 FALSE no info:eu-repo/semantics/article