Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107560 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8775
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Training funds are used to incentivize training in developing countries, but the funds are based on payroll taxes that lower the return to training. In the absence of training funds, larger, high-wage and more capital intensive firms are the most likely to offer training unless they are liquidity constrained. If firms are not liquidity constrained, the fund could lower training investments. Using an administrative dataset on the Mauritius training fund, we find that the firms most likely to train pay more in taxes than they gain in subsidies. The smallest firms receive more benefits than they pay in taxes.
Subjects: 
training
general skills
firm-specific skills
training fund
externality
cross-subsidy
tax
JEL: 
M53
O15
O2
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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