Investment in Human Capital¶
Becker. (1962). Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis. Journal of Political Economy.
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- Human Capital
- A distinction internal to the framework shapes the whole applied literature: Becker's separation of general human capital (portable across employers, so the worker captures the return) from firm-specific human capital (valuable only to the current employer, so firm and worker share the return and the hold-up risk)
This sourceBecker's general/specific training distinction and its wage consequence — general training portable and worker-financed, specific training jointly financed with the return shared according to quit and layoff exposure; the 'hold-up' framing itself is a later incomplete-contracts gloss.
- A distinction internal to the framework shapes the whole applied literature: Becker's separation of general human capital (portable across employers, so the worker captures the return) from firm-specific human capital (valuable only to the current employer, so firm and worker share the return and the hold-up risk)
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