Training and early Retirement

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Training and early Retirement

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Montizaan Raymond
Coervers Frank
Grip Andries de (ROA rm)

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In this paper we analyze how retirement behavior is affected by a worker’s firm-specific or general training history. Using US data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Older Men and controlling for the effects of technological change and workers’ retirement preferences, we find that workers with a firm-specific training history retire earlier than workers with a general training background. This indicates that shared investments in firm-specific training are embedded in upward sloping earning profiles that create productivity-wage differentials for older workers.

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Paper provided by Maastricht : ROA, Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt in its series Research Memoranda with number 002.

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NEP-AGE-2007-11-24 (Economics of Ageing)
NEP-ALL-2007-11-24 (All new papers)
NEP-EDU-2007-11-24 (Education)
NEP-HRM-2007-11-24 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
NEP-LAB-2007-11-24 (Labour Economics)

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