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Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications - 114
Citations - 24179
Jörn-Steffen Pischke is an academic researcher from London School of Economics and Political Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Earnings. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 114 publications receiving 22545 citations. Previous affiliations of Jörn-Steffen Pischke include National Bureau of Economic Research & Princeton University.
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Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion
TL;DR: The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes.
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Mostly harmless econometrics
TL;DR: The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit policy changes as mentioned in this paper.
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Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive is proposed, where the current employer has superior information about the worker's ability relative to other firms, which gives the employer an ex post monopsony power over the worker which encourages the firm to provide training.
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The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training
TL;DR: In the human capital model with perfect labor markets, firms never invest in general skills and all cost of general training are borne by workers as mentioned in this paper. But when lobor market frictions compress the structure of the labor market, the costs of general skills are increased.
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Beyond Becker: Training in Imperfect Labor Markets
TL;DR: The authors survey non-competitive theories of training and draw some tentative policy conclusions from these models, and discuss a variety of evidence which support the predictions of noncompetitive theories, and they draw a tentative policy conclusion.