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IZA
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Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
by
Edward Lazear
(June 2003)
Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117 (5), 914 - 940
Abstract:
One problem with the theory of firm-specific human capital is that it is difficult to generate
convincing examples of investment that could generate the sometimes observed large and
continuing effects on earnings. Another approach, called the “skill-weights” view, allows all
skills to be general in that there are other firms that use the each of the skills. But firms use
them in different combinations and with different weights attached to them. The skill-weights
view not only has aesthetic appeal, but is consistent with the frequently observed large
tenure effects. All of the implications of the traditional view are produced by this approach,
and there are a number of other implications that distinguish the new view from the traditional
one. The empirical evidence already contains some support for the skill-weights view.
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 813
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