This paper develops and structurally estimates a learning model in which firms acquire information about workers … jobs and firms. Because of the trade--off between learning and short--run profit maximization, a firm's optimal job … learning model can succeed in fitting the dynamic pattern of separations, promotions and demotions, and individual wage …

We use experiments to study the efficiency effects for a market as a whole of adding the possibility of forward …

This paper investigates a learning model in which information about a worker's ability, unobserved to both the worker … requires. We then examine the strategic effects of the dynamics of learning on a worker's career profile. We prove that price …