Job matching, technological progress, and worker-provided on-the-job training

Mário Centeno () and Márcio Corrêa

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 109, issue 3, 190-192

Abstract: We show that greater technological progress is associated with a lower (higher) probability of worker investment in firm-specific human capital if the technology is of creative destruction (renovation) type. The impact of human capital investments on labor market outcomes depends on the type of investment.

Keywords: Job; creation; Job; destruction; Human; capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Working Paper: JOB MATCHING, TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND WORKER-PROVIDED ON-THE-JOB TRAINING (2005)
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