TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gersbach, Hans
AU  - Schmutzler, Armin
        TI  - A Product Market Theory of Worker Training
        PY  - 2001/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 327
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp327
        AB  - We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for each others’ trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and trained workers are substitutes, firms may invest in non-specific training if others do the same, because they would otherwise suffer a competitive disadvantage or need to pay high wages in order to attract trained workers. Government intervention can be socially desirable to turn training into a focal equilibrium.
        KW  - General training
KW  - human capital
KW  - oligopoly
KW  - turnover
        ER  -