Market conditions and worker training: How does it affect and whom? |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark;2. Norwegian Arthroplasty Register, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway;3. Departments of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Turku University Hospital, Åbo, Finland;4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark;5. Department of Orthopedics, Karolinska Institutet, Danderyds Sjukhus AB, Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden;1. Haitong Securities Company Limited, Shanghai 200001, PR China;2. Department of Finance, School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, PR China;3. China Financial Policy Research Center, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, PR China |
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| Abstract: | This paper analyses the impact of labor market conditions on a firm's incentive to train its workers. In an equilibrium model of the labor market in which firms use both untrained and in-house-trained workers, we show that the incidence of training increases with the tightness of the labor market. In a multi-sector framework, the usual threat of hold-up by a trained worker is more severe for workers who change their sector of work; during downturns, this serves to bias firms' incentives in imparting training away from such workers and towards workers already in the firm and those new workers coming from the same sector. Evidence from the NLSY confirms both predictions—the incidence and duration of company-sponsored training is adversely affected by higher unemployment rates; furthermore, this negative effect is much stronger for workers who change industries as compared to those who do not. |
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