Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951360

Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323429

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828819

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'...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829349

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829980

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005579948

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614632

Technology Transfer in a Global Economy

Audretsch, David B. - 2012

of Central Florida in Regional Economic Development -- The impact of technological acquisitions on innovation and quality … property rights in the biotechnology industry -- External technology supply and client-side innovation -- The Enrolment in an R … regional characteristics on the relationship between university resources and knowledge-based startup's performance -- Learning …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016405

Essays in Public Sector Entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B. (ed.); Link, Albert N. (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Motivating Entrepreneurship and Innovation Activity -- Chapter 3 Publicly Funded … Principal Investigators as Transformative Agents of Public Sector Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 4 An Innovation Policy Framework … -- Chapter 5 Radical and Incremental Innovation and the Role of University Scientist. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014018873