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The Job Search and Investments of Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Connolly, Marie D.; Worswick, … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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Materialism on the March: From Conspicuous Leisure to Conspicuous Consumption?

Frijters, Paul; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

This paper inserts Veblen’s (1898) concepts of conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption into a very simple model. Individuals have the choice to either invest their time into working, leading to easily observable levels of consumption, or into conspicuous leisure, whose effect on...

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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labour Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Crossley, Thomas - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women: Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs and the Role of Selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labour supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...

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Matching Demand and Supply in a Weightless Economy: Market-Driven Creativity With and Without IPRs

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Many cultural products have the same non-rival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic – societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection...

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Digital Goods and the New Economy

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Digital goods are bit strings, sequences of 0s and 1s, that have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are non-rival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...

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Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

past, not in the future. The Internet fails as a Great Invention because much of its use involves substitution of existing … activities from one medium to another, because much Internet investment involves defence of market share rather than creation of … something of social value, because much Internet activity duplicates existing activity like mail order catalogues, while the …

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Multitasking and Wages

Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...

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Changes in the Functional Structure of Firms and the Demand for Skill

Maurin, Eric; Thesmar, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We describe and analyse the changes in the occupational structure of French manufacturing firms between 1984 and 1995. Firms employ a much greater proportions of engineers and researchers working on the design and marketing of new products and a much lower proportion of high-skilled experts...

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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...

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