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Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German multinational enterprises (MNEs), using plant data that allow us to discern tasks, occupations, and workforce skills. Offshoring is associated with a statistically significant shift towards more...

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses--1816, 1849,...

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...

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Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the role of knowledge and beliefs

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2012

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Knowledge and individual behaviour in the Austrian tradition of business cycles: von Mises vs. Hayek

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2003

in Mises and Hayek's explanations of the different hases of the trade cycle, by underlying the role played by knowledge …

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Macroeconomic analysis and individual economic rationality: some lessons from Wicksell to Schumpeter and von Mises

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2005

The purpose of this contribution is to investigate the problem of the room attributed to individual economic rationality by circulation approaches. Our investigation will not privilege however the modern contributions of this approach but will instead utilize the works of some economists of the...

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Introduction

Arena, Richard; Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2006

This book surveys how economists engage with knowledge and beliefs in various fields of economic analysis, such as … perspective on the meaning, as well as the role, of knowledge and beliefs in economics in the future. Possible lines of future … action are discussed.A platform for future research and investigation into the role of knowledge and beliefs in economics …

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Carl Menger and Friedrich von Wieser on the role of knowledge and beliefs

Festré, Agnès - HAL - 2009

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