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This paper studies how firing cost differences across jobs affect workers' human capital and employment. Using Spanish administrative data, I document that unemployment's scarring effect on earnings is larger for separated workers re-employed in lower-firing-cost jobs.  Using a quantitative search model, I estimate heterogenous human capital dynamics due to firing cost differences. Both lower human capital returns under lower firing-cost jobs and depreciation from frequent turnover are key to recreating the earnings scar. I quantify substantial lifetime wage losses of entering the labor market under a lower-firing-cost job, and aggregate productivity reductions from increasing labor flexibility via low-firing jobs.