Balmaceda, Felipe2023-03-172023-03-172021-10Economics of Education ReviewVolume 84October 2021 Article number 10216502727757https://repositorio.unab.cl/xmlui/handle/ria/47561INDEXACIÓN:SCOPUSThis paper shows that a competitive labor market fails to provide first-best incentives to invest in general human capital and this has distributive consequences: college students and firms underinvest in human capital, and this is more pronounced for high-skill students with low-income parents. Long-term contracts, together with privately provided wage-contingent loans, cannot restore efficiency and eliminate the distributive consequences of this labor market failure. Government student loans together with firm subsidies to human capital investments fully solve the market failure.enA failure of the market for college education and on-the-job human capitalArtÃculo