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Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms
We present evidence consistent with large disparities across firms in the on-the-job learning their young employees experience, using administrative datasets from Brazil and Italy. We categorize firms into discrete "classes" using a clustering methodology which groups together firms with similar distributions of unexplained earnings growth. Equipped with this categorization of firms-which our conceptual framework interprets as skill-learning classes-we document three main results. First, Mincerian returns to experience vary substantially across experiences acquired in different firm classes, and the magnitude of this heterogeneity is associated with significant shifts across the distribution of early-career wage growth. Second, past experience at firms with better on-the-job learning is associated with subsequent jobs featuring greater non-routine task content. Third, firms' observable characteristics only mildly predict on-the-job learning opportunities. Our findings hold among involuntarily displaced workers who have no seniority at their new jobs, which is consistent with a portable skills interpretation.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14473
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Subject
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human capital
on-the-job learning
firms
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Arellano-Bover, Jaime
Saltiel, Fernando
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Arellano-Bover, Jaime
- Saltiel, Fernando
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2021
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