Promotions, Multiskilling and Incentives for Skills∗

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  • Suraj Prasad
  • Hien Tran
چکیده

We study incentives for skill acquisition when skills cannot be contracted on. Our framework has two features. First, workers can acquire both firm specific and general skills at a cost, and second, job assignments signal skill acquisition to a less informed labor market. Our key insight is that each skill performs a different function. The firm specific skill helps in revealing information to a labor market whereas the general skill enforces wage promises from employers. As a consequence, both skills are acquired together in equilibrium, sometimes inefficiently. This endogenous complementarity between skills also yields implications for promotions and job design.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010