Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training

Matteo Picchio and Jan van Ours

No 2010026, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper empirically assesses the validity of these predictions. We find that a decrease in labor market frictions significantly reduces firms’ training expenditures. Instead, product market competition does not have an effect on firm-sponsored training. We conclude that increasing competition through international integration and globalization does not pose a threat to investments in on-the-job training. An increase in labor market flexibility may reduce incentives of firms to invest in training, but the magnitude of this effect is small.

Keywords: firm-sponsored training; labor market frictions; product market competition; matched worker-firm data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 J24 J42 L22 M53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2010-08-16
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-mic
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