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Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education

Acemoglu, Daron; Laibson, David; list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Internet-based educational resources are proliferating rapidly. One concern associated with these (potentially transformative) technological changes is that they will be disequalizing - as many technologies of the last several decades have been - creating superstar teachers and a winner-take-all...

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Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

This paper offers and tests a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive. The crucial ingredient in our model is that the current employer has superior information about the worker's ability relative to other firms. This informational advantage gives the...

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The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

In the standard model of human capital with perfect labor markets general training. When labor market frictions compress the structure of wages in the general skills of their employees. The reason is that the distortion in the wage structure" turn technologically' general skills into specific'...

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Minimum Wages and On-the-job Training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Becker's theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers, because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. We show that when the assumption of perfectly competitive labor markets underlying this...

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Beyond Becker: Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

In this paper, we survey non-competitive theories of training. With competitive labor markets, firms never pay for investments in general training, whereas when labor markets are imperfect, firm-sponsored training arises as an equilibrium phenomenon. We discuss a variety of evidence which...

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Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two...

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Varieties of knowledge-based bioeconomies

Urmetzer, Sophie; Pyka, Andreas - 2014

seriously, such endeavour calls for the creation and diffusion of new knowledge as basis for innovation and behavioural change … on various levels and therefore often is referred to as knowledge-based bioeconomy. In the current debate, the … requirement for innovation is mostly seen in the advance of the biotechnology sector. However, in order to fulfil the requirement …

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The evolution of innovation networks : the case of a German automotive network

Buchmann, Tobias; Pyka, Andreas - 2013

In this paper we outline a conceptual framework for depicting network development patterns of interfirm innovation … test hypotheses in the innovation and evolutionary economics framework and show that structural positions of firms as well …

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Ranking the performance of national innovation systems in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America from a neo-Schumpeterian economics perspective

Paredes-Frigolett, Harold (contributor); … - 2014

We present the results of an empirical study of the national innovation systems of countries in the Iberian Peninsula … period from 2000 until 2011 and the countries analyzed are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Portugal, and Spain. Unlike … previous approaches that used cluster analyses as a methodological framework to analyze national innovation systems from a CSNE …

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Turkish-German innovation networks in the European research landscape

Prostolupow, Irene; Pyka, Andreas; Heller-Schuh, Barbara - 2013

Research networks are regarded as channels for knowledge creation and diffusion and are thus essential for the … participants in FP5 to FP7 in the knowledge-intensive technology fields ICT, Biotechnology and Nanoscience. A better understanding …

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