The present chapter provides a historical reappraisal of labor-saving technologies. It reviews and systematizes theoretical contributions and empirical findings documenting the presence of labor- and time-saving heuristics in innovative efforts back since the First Industrial Revolution. More in...

This paper, relying on a still relatively unexplored long-term dataset on U.S. patenting activity, provides empirical evidence on the history of labour-saving innovations back to early 19th century. The identification of mechanisation/automation heuristics, retrieved via textual content analysis...

This paper, relying on a still relatively unexplored long-term dataset on U.S.~patenting activity, provides empirical evidence on the history of labour-saving innovations back to early 19th century. The identification of mechanisation/automation heuristics, retrieved via textual content analysis...

The research examined the impact of social media; social networking theory, word of mouth¸ feedback loop, and creditability content on the consumer buying behavior in Pakistan. The structured questionnaire was shared using convenience sampling between 650-700 participants. However, received 392...

Popularity of study of clusters in economic research grows. Thus, researchers direct their efforts for study of this economic phenomenon and practitioners – for realization of cluster approach in economies of particular regions. Territorial concentration is not always a condition for the...

Commonly used industry classifications do not reliably predict stock co-movement because companies change their core structure quickly relative to the slow and haphazard updating of widely used subjective industry classifications. We construct an objective industry classification that clusters...

Using principal components analysis (PCA) and hierarchal clustering, I classify all professional basketball players in the NBA since the 2000-01 season and observe their classification transitions under a Markov transition matrix framework. Player attributes—including shot type and location...

Multilingual hires are a burgeoning feature of the workplace, but there is little evidence on the returns to language skills. This study puts forth a theoretical framework that comprehensively relates language and non-language skills to labor market outcomes drawing upon a variety of fields:...

Access to information on competencies demanded by companies may be performed by a prospective study of job offers posted by employers. But, these include a large amount of quantitative and qualitative but mainly textual data, so an appropriate approach should be chosen in order to obtain a...

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct socio-emotional scales comparable across cohorts for both boys and girls, using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour. We identify two...