Creating cooperation
how states develop human capital in Europe
- ISBN: 9780801440694
- Editorial: Cornell University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2003
- Lugar de la edición: Ithaca. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Cornell studies in political economy
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 239
- Idiomas: Inglés
In Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of human capital reforms adopted by the French and German governments in the 1990s. Employers and employees both stand to gain from corporate investment in worker skills, but uncertainty and mutual distrust among companies doom many policy initiatives to failure. Higher skills benefit society as a whole, so national governments want to foster them. However, business firms often will not invest in training that makes their workers more attractive to other employers, even though they would prefer having better-skilled workers