Search Frictions, Credit Constraints andFirm Financed General Training

Christian Ludwig Holzner

No Ifo Working Paper No. 6, Ifo Working Paper Series from Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Abstract: This paper shows that in a search model where future employers of trained workers donot benefit from the training in other firms, investment into general training will only be below the competitive level if workers are credit constrained. If workers are credit constrained, then the training firm cannot recover the cost of training since trained workers will search for a better paid job. This does, however, not imply that trainees will benefit from training. Only if the trainee wage is bounded by the workers' credit constraints do trainees gain from training.

Keywords: General training; credit constraints; search frictions; matching. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 J41 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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