Training Without Certification: An Experimental Study

Nadège Marchand () and Claude Montmarquette ()
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Nadège Marchand: GATE, University of Lyon, CNRS, ENS-LSH, Centre Léon Bérard, France

No 823, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Université Lyon 2, Ecole Normale Supérieure

Abstract: Our study considers the question of training in firms using an experimental laboratory approach. We investigate the following questions : What conditions, excluding external certification, will bring workers and employers to cooperate and share a rent generated by the workers’ training? What conditions will induce workers to accept the training offer, for employers to initially offer the training and to reward the trained workers in the last stage of the game? We analyse the impact of the size of the rent created by training and the existence of an information system on employer reputation rewarding trained employees. Reputation does matter to induce cooperation, but in the absence of external institutions, coordination on the optimal outcome remains difficult.

Keywords: general and speficic trainings in firms; accreditation; cooperation and reputation; experimental econonmics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 I (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-hrm and nep-lab
Date: 2008

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