General and Specific Training: Evidence and Implications
利用EOPP和NLSY数据，本文直接衡量了雇主提供培训的通用性和专用性，并分析这些培训如何影响工资增长和职业流动。研究发现，大多数培训技能在其他岗位也有用，支持了雇主能从通用培训中获利的理论。
Using data from the Employer Opportunity Pilot Project (EOPP) survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we explicitly document the specificity and generality of employer-provided training, and we analyze how wage growth and mobility are influenced by our direct measures of specific and general training. In spite of the emphasis that labor economists have placed on specific training, we find that employers in the EOPP and workers in the NLSY indicate that most of the skills learned in training are useful elsewhere. Our results are consistent with several recent models that predict that employers will often extract some of the returns to the general training they provide.