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. Quantitative exercises suggest that the over-specialization of the labor force in Poland led to much higher and persistent …
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to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional …
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This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in the structure of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...
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This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children … on this specialization. It then examines the links between the time allocations of partners in couple families, the … impact of children on these links, and the effects these factors have on specialization in time use. Children are shown to …
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the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender …
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of specialization in more narrowly defined household tasks from the 2001-2019 waves of the Household, Income and Labour … limited evidence of specialization in any type of relationship. The results for women are much stronger. Women who marry … further evidence of specialization. Survey responses on the degree of specialization are more informative. The raw data show …
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We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries participating in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC) and from 13 countries that also participate in the International Adult Literacy Study...
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This paper aims to shed new light on explanations for the sexual division of labour, within a broader examination of within-household specialisation. We propose a set of indices which we believe are the first direct within-couple measures of specialisation. We use these to present a rich...
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Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market … implications for ethnic specialization. Specifically, fundamental relationships through which relative group sizes determine … whether ethnic specialization arises and in what degree are established. Thus, this paper theoretically justifies a downward …
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The aim of this study is to test the possible catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 - 2000). The interactions between four different sources of...
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