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Intrahousehold Specialization in Housework in the United States and Denmark
Bonke, Jens; Deding, Mette; Lausten, Mette; Stratton, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
specialization. We hypothesize that the degree of specialization is influenced by economic notions of efficiency, as well as by time … constraints and egalitarian values. Methods: Employing time use data on US and Danish couples, we model specialization using a … multivariate two-limit Tobit. Results: We analyze the comparability of reported time use and our specialization index using …
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a … structural change in the form of intra-industry specialization. Our findings are consistent with Ventura's hypothesis that growth …
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Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men’s incentives for sharing...
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion...
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Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance
Polachek, Solomon; Sevastianova, Daria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do different types of conflict affect country growth...
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Then and Now: Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms
Gregory, Bob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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Can the University Save Europe?
Ritzen, Jo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic growth. For that purpose higher education must strengthen its innovative power in entrepreneurship education and by focusing research more on societal problems, while being better...
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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
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