One widely accepted conclusion in the human capital literature on training is that firms will finance only firm-specific training because it is non-transferable to other firms. Firms will not be willing to finance training in general (transferable) skills. In this paper it is argued that a...

The major premise of this paper is that potential recruiters do not possess much information on the extent and type of workers'on-the-job-training. Workers taken for trained might turn out to possess no, or very little, general training. Also, a worker recruited for a given job may possess the...

Despite the documented importance of transport costs for firms with sales in geographically separated markets, theoretical analyses typically ignore such costs. This paper analyzes the effects of transport costs for a risk averse, competitive firm selling a single good in a domestic (certain)...

Despite the general belief that a free flow of information enhances efficiency, social convention appears to call for secrecy regarding individuals' wages. This paper provides an explanation for this convention. The authors suggest that the role of wage secrecy is to reduce effective labor...

This paper seeks to further develop location theory under uncertainty, within the classical framework of land use models formulated by Von Thünen and Alonso. The analysis proceeds by allowing uncertainty in the price of output, the transport rate of a unit of output and output per unit of land....

Purpose – There appears to be a puzzle associated with the observation that individuals both donate and volunteer to charity. If the purpose of a giving individual is to maximize the effect of his/her donation, then he/she should give as effectively as possible. This implies that an individual...