Investment in General Training: The Role of Information and Labour Mobility
Investment in General Training: The Role of Information and Labour Mobility
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一般培训投资：信息和劳动力流动的作用
DOI：
10.2307/2233964
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发表时间：
1990
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通讯作者：
A. Ziderman
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作者：
E. Katz;A. Ziderman
在贝克尔（1964）的开创性工作之后，文献中广泛接受的是，企业将不愿意为工人可能在其他企业使用的培训提供资金。本文对这一预测提出异议，并认为企业将经常分担这种一般培训的成本。贝克尔认为，一家公司支付培训工人的潜在使用其他公司的技能将失去这些工人：因为其他公司不承担一般培训的成本，他们可以通过出价高于培训他的公司来吸引这种培训的工人。由于认识到对一般培训的投资没有产权，公司将拒绝提供这种投资。因此，如果要进行一般培训，受训者将不得不支付费用。如果潜在的受训者不愿意或无法支付费用，一般培训将不会进行。一般培训可能出现短缺;这在发展中国家可能特别突出。
Following the seminal work of Becker (I964), it is widely accepted in the literature that firms will be unwilling to finance training which workers may use in other firms. This paper takes issue with this prediction and suggests that firms will frequently share in the cost of such general training.1 Becker argues that a firm which pays for the training of workers in skills of potential use to other firms will lose these workers: since other firms bear none of the costs of general training, they can attract a worker with such training by outbidding the firm which trained him. Recognising this absence of property rights over an investment in general training, firms will refuse to provide it. Hence, if general training is to take place, the trainee will have to pay for it. If potential trainees are unwilling or unable to pay, general training will not take place. A shortage in general training is likely to emerge; this may be especially pronounced in developing countries.2 In contrast, the outlook for