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Product Markets And Industry-Specific Training, Armin Schmutzler, Hans Gersbach
Product Markets And Industry-Specific Training, Armin Schmutzler, Hans Gersbach
Armin Schmutzler
We develop a product market theory to explain why firms provide their workers with skills that are also useful to their competitors. Firms first decide whether to invest in industry-specific training, then make wage offers for each others’ trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training can emerge. If competition is soft, firms invest in training if others do. Thereby, they avoid having to pay high wages for trained workers. Furthermore, we draw welfare conclusions from the analysis. Finally, we discuss how our ideas apply to supplier relationships and to general training.
Essays On Industrial Organization And Environmental Economics, Cristina Marie Reiser
Essays On Industrial Organization And Environmental Economics, Cristina Marie Reiser
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation consists of three chapters that examine how regulation by a central authority motivates changes in behavior.
Chapter 1 identifies the role of a tolerance policy as a manager’s regulatory mechanism which can deter worker misconduct in rank-order tournaments. When contestants’ actions cannot be perfectly monitored or doing so is prohibitively costly, misconduct takes place. This chapter develops a theoretical model in which contestants compete for a prize in a symmetric tournament and in which the organizer tolerates some level of misconduct. In addition to showing that zero tolerance does not minimize equilibrium misconduct, it also shows there exists …