Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/2876 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 586
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Suppose insiders use their market power to push up their wages, while entrants receive their reservation wages. How will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in the presence of on-the-job training, increases boom-time employment. Thus on-the-job training can make insider wage hikes less detrimental to average employment (over booms and recessions). We show that when such training is sufficiently high and when economic shocks are sufficiently transient, an insider wage hike may even lead to a rise in average employment.
Subjects: 
insider power
employment
on-the-job training
JEL: 
J42
J64
J24
J31
E24
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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