TY - BOOK AU - Acemoglu,Daron AU - Pischke,Jorn-Steffen ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Beyond Becker: Training in Imperfect Labor Markets T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 1998/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - September 1998; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - 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 support the predictions of non-competitive theories, and we draw some tentative policy conclusions from these models UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w6740 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w6740 ER -