Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach.
The theory of human capital is agnostic on what constitutes firm-specific skills. The theory specifies that specific skills contribute to productivity only at the current firm. A broader approach lets all skills be general, but firms use them with different weights attached. For example, computer pr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Political Economy Vol. 117; no. 5; pp. 914 - 941 |
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University of Chicago Press
October 2009
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