published in: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 2005, 4 (1)
This paper explores the influence of on-the-job training on the employment effect of firing
costs. It shows that on-the-job training (generating firm specific skills) causes firing costs to
have a contractionary influence on average employment (over the booms and recessions of
the business cycle).
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