Firm-specific Training: Consequences for Job Mobility

Josef Zweimüller () and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

No 138, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job separations are significantly affected by both employer-provided and general training. Moreover, while the separation probability of searching workers is strongly affected by previous firm-provided training, no such effect shows up for non-searchers. This is consistent with the hypothesis that workers bear most of the cost of specific training.

Keywords: on-the-job-search; Firm-specific training; turnover (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2000-03
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Published - published as 'On-the-job-training, job search and job mobility' in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 139 (4), 563-576

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