%0 Report %A Diaz-Vazquez, Pilar %A Snower, Dennis J. %T On-the-Job Training, Firing Costs and Employment %D 2003 %8 2003 Oct %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 910 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp910 %X This paper explores the influence of on-the-job training on the employment effect of firing costs. It shows that on-the-job training (generating firm specific skills) causes firing costs to have a contractionary influence on average employment (over the booms and recessions of the business cycle). %K on-the-job training %K firing costs %K average employment