Oksana Zakharova

Doctor of Economics, Prof.

Faculty of Management

Department of Management and Commercial Law

Economic STUDY and risk estimE OF THE InvestMENT

in the human capital

Donetsk National Technical University

Donetsk, Ukraine

E-mail: okcana1976@list.ru

Oleg Kratt

Doctor of Economics, Prof.

Faculty of Economics

Department of Economics and Marketing

Donetsk National Technical University

Donetsk, Ukraine

E-mail: liben50@mail.ru

ABSTRACT. A given paper objectifies the significance of evaluating risks of investment into human capital for an enterprise. The work defines the essence of risk of investment into human capital and suggests the algorithm of the process of investment into human capital. The article also illustrates the procedure of identifying the most dangerous investment risks and provides evidence for quantitative evaluation of risks of investment into human capital. It categorizes the most dangerous risks and puts forward strategies for responding to the most common types of risks of investment into human capital.

Received: February, 2014

1st Revision: March, 2014

Accepted: May, 2014

DOI:10.14254/2071-789X.2014/7-2/8

JEL Classification: D81, D83, I25, J24, М12

Keywords: investment into human capital, planning, enterprise, objective, risk.