Institutions and Training Inequality
| Title: | Institutions and Training Inequality |
|---|---|
| Authors: | Wolfgang Lechthaler; Dennis J. Snower; Jel-classification H J |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://kms1.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/48161/ipublicationdocument_singledocument/3bc6d4d4-aa43-413d-a7df-2554c134d28d/en/kap1372.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2007 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: | Firm Training; Skills Inequality; Institutions |
| Description: | We analyze the interaction among important institutional variables in the labor market (firing costs, minimum wages and unemployment benefits) in determining firm-provided training. We find that the institutional interactions- specifically, their degree of complementarity and substitutability- depends on employees ’ abil-ities. On this account, the institutional interactions influence skills inequality. We derive how the influence of one of the institutional variables above is affected by other institutional variables with respect to inequality skills arising from firm-provided training. We derive several striking results, such as: (a) the minimum wage and unemployment benefits generate increasing skills inequality whereas firing costs generate diminishing skills inequality; (b) unemployment benefits and firing costs are complements in their effects on skills disequalization, (c) firing costs and the minimum wage are complements in their effects on skills equalization, and (d) un-employment benefits and the minimum wage are substitution in their effects on skills inequality. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.606.5789 |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.606.5789; http://kms1.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/48161/ipublicationdocument_singledocument/3bc6d4d4-aa43-413d-a7df-2554c134d28d/en/kap1372.pdf |
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| Accession Number: | edsbas.3CE6D667 |
| Database: | BASE |