労働者参加企業における人的資本投資

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A large number of studies have been made on the investment behavior under worker participation. Still, most of these studies have treated the problem only as that of investment in physical capital ; that is "horizon problem". This paper focuses the human capital investment under worker participation ; in particular the intra-firm training. After a brief capitulation of the development of the theory of labour-managed firms and the theory of human capital, we attempt to compare the intra-firm training behaviors of revenue per worker-maximized firms (LMs) with that of profit-maximized firms (PMs) using a simple model. From this comparative analysis, we show that under a certain condition concerned with the skill specificity and the discount rates, LMs may choose a higher level of human capital investment than PMs. This result mainly comes from the difference of the inherent rights to human capital between for workers and for entrepreneurs. Finally, we make some developments of this analysis into the impact of school education on the level of intra-firm training.
神戸大学の論文
1998-03-10