Firm-specific training: Consequences for job mobility

Josef Zweimüller () and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

No 2000-06, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

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: firm-specific training; on-the-job-search; turnover. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-03
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