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Promotion, Turnover, Earnings, and Firm‐Sponsored Training

Hideo Owan

University of Washington

Journal of Labor Economics 2004

I develop a model in which different technological conditions lead to distinct equilibria with different patterns in labor mobility, promotion, earning distribution, and provision of firm‐sponsored training. Key is the asymmetric learning of workers’ characteristics. Because of the information that is conveyed to the market by promotion, firms have incentives to adopt strategic promotion policies, which result in different patterns in the use of internal labor market. The theory explains well the differences between the Japanese and the United States labor markets.

DOI
10.1086/423160
Volume
22 (4)
Pages
955-978
Language
en
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