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Title: General and Specific Training: Evidence and Implications
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Loewenstein, Mark A. Spletzer, James R. |
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General and Specific Training: Evidence and Implications Journal of Human Resources 34,4 (Fall 1999): 710-733. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/146414 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Mobility; Skills; Training; Training, Employee; Wage Growth Using data from the Employer Opportunity Pilot Project (EOPP) survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we explicitly document the specificity and generality of employer-provided training, and we analyze how wage growth and mobility are influenced by our direct measures of specific and general training. In spite of the emphasis that labor economists have placed on specific training, we find that employers in the EOPP and workers in the NLSY indicate that most of the skills learned in training are useful elsewhere. Our results are consistent with several recent models that predict that employers will often extract some of the returns to the general training they provide. |
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Loewenstein, Mark A. and James R. Spletzer. "General and Specific Training: Evidence and Implications." Journal of Human Resources 34,4 (Fall 1999): 710-733.
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