TY - RPRT AU - Diaz-Vazquez, Pilar AU - Snower, Dennis J. TI - On-the-Job Training, Firing Costs and Employment PY - 2003/Oct/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 910 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp910 AB - 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). KW - on-the-job training KW - firing costs KW - average employment ER -