Employers’ Associations, Worker Mobility, and Training

Globalization and General Worker Training

We examine how globalization affects firms incentives to train workers. In our model, firms invest in productivity-enhancing worker training before Cournot competition takes place. When two separated product markets become integrated and are thus replaced with a market with greater demand and greater firm number, training by each firm increases provided the two countries are sufficiently small....

Seniority rules , worker mobility and wages

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that last-in-first-out rules reduce dismissals of older, more senior workers, especially in shrinking multinational firms...

New Worker Training Initiative

There has been increasing interest in recent years in negative regulators of haemopoietic stem cell proliferation. Such factors , as well as being of general interest in the understanding of the regulation of haemopoiesis, may also have profound clinical implications; for example, in alleviating the neutro-penia which follows destruction of the haemopoietic system by cytotoxic agents used in tu...

Health Status, Health Insurance, and Worker Mobility:

Innovation, Knowledge Flow, and Worker Mobility

In knowledge-driven industrial markets employee turnover is often quite high despite each firm’s interest in restricting knowledge flow resulting from employee departures. We present a dynamic contracting and matching model of the employment relationship between a firm and a worker (engineer) that provides an equilibrium explanation for high turnover. Incompleteness of the contracting relations...