Arbeitspapier

Globalization and general worker training

We examine how globalization affects firms incentives to train workers. In our model, firms invest in productivity-enhancing worker training before Cournot competition takes place. When two separated product markets become integrated and are thus replaced with a market with greater demand and greater firm number, training by each firm increases provided the two countries are sufficiently small. When barriers between large markets are eliminated, training is reduced. Similar results hold when firms in countries with different training systems face globalization of product markets. In particular, apprenticeship systems are threatened by a large-scale integration of product markets. Contrary to product market integration, labor market integration has no effect on training incentives.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 0403

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Monopoly
Firm Organization and Market Structure
Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
Railroads and Other Surface Transportation
Thema
general training
human capital
oligopoly
turnover
Globalisierung
Humankapital
Betriebliches Bildungsmanagement
Oligopol
Marktstruktur
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gersbach, Hans
Schmutzler, Armin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute
(wo)
Zurich
(wann)
2004

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gersbach, Hans
  • Schmutzler, Armin
  • University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute

Entstanden

  • 2004

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