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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

The paper examines the question, do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? The author introduces a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may
transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of non-excludability, irreversibility and generality of those skills.