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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2008
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Ruhr Economic Papers No. 41
Verlag: 
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen
Zusammenfassung: 
Using a large panel data set of German manufacturing establishments, this paper investigates the impact of competition on training incidence as well as on the number of trained workers. According to theory, one would expect a negative relationship between product market competition and firms' incentives to invest in employees' general skills (Gersbach and Schmutzler 2006). In our empirical analysis, product market competition is approximated by various measures of competition such as the Herfindahl Index, the number of firms at the 3-digit industry level and the price cost margin. After controlling for unobserved heterogeneity across industries and establishments, there is no significant effect of competition on training. This result is robust towards different samples, model specifications and estimation techniques.
Schlagwörter: 
Training
human capital
product market competition
JEL: 
J24
L22
D43
C23
ISBN: 
978-3-86788-041-1
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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