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Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century

Siminski, Peter - 2020

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 descriptive profile of specialisation. Absolute advantage in market work has only a …-based specialisation is much greater. We consider whether the patterns in the data are consistent with a formal Beckerian model of …

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Ethnic Competition and Specialization

Kahanec, Martin - 2021

Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...

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A Procedural Perspective on Academic Spin-Off Creation : The Changing Relevance of Academic and Commercial Logics

Cantner, Uwe; Doerr, Philipp; Göthner, Maximilian; … - 2022

We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap : Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014

after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … a result of China's anti-natalist policies. Concomitantly spousal age and educational differences narrowed by …

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China's 'Great Migration' : The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty

Facchini, Giovanni - 2018

We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one …

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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?

Lamo, Ana - 2010

This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having experienced important macroeconomic turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland,...

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Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands

Akcomak, Semih - 2011

together tasks; comparative advantage stimulates unbundling and specialisation. The estimates suggest that on average the … Netherlands has witnessed unbundling in the period 1996-2005, which implies that advantages of specialisation have increased …

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The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities

Le, Anh Tram - 2010

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...

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Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina - 2009

Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the...

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