Author : Chun Chang
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Book Synopsis Human Capital Investment Under Asymmetric Information by : Chun Chang
Download or read book Human Capital Investment Under Asymmetric Information written by Chun Chang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article investigates how human capital investment, labor turnover, and wages are jointly determined when the current employer knows more about a worker's productivity than potential employers. Results derived are quite different from, or unexplored by, the standard human capital theory. We show that the information asymmetry can cause an externality distortion in human capital investment because higher productivity due to the investment may not be recognized by the market. The investment level increases in the degree of firm specificity of human capital. The underinvestment problem is more severe when human capital is general than when it is firm-specific.