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Division of labour and directed production

Ratto, Marisa; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2005

We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...

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Measuring and interpreting trends in the division of labour in the Netherlands

Akçomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 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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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap

Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022

fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …

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Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Heine, Jens Michael - 2004

cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different …

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The effect of children on specialization and coordination of partners' activities

Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W. - 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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Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century

Siminski, Peter; Yetsenga, Rhiannon - 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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Division of Labour and Directed Production

Ratto, Marisa; Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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

Le, Anh T.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Heine, Jens M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different …

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Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress

Broadberry, Stephen; Ghosal, Sayantan; Proto, Eugenio - 2015

Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the … precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper models and analyzes such link: the role of commercialisation in …

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