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The Impact of Foreclosure on Housing Prices
Siebert, Ralph - 2015
The aim of the study is to explain if the foreclosure effect on prices is explained by a lower quality of foreclosed houses, which is a crucial aspect in the intelligibility of foreclosures. Based on a novel and comprehensive dataset, we estimate the impact of foreclosure on home prices in...
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Industrial clusters in the long run: evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China
Heblich, Stephan; Seror, Marlon; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - 2019
This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 “Million-Rouble plants” in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the...
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Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization, human capital …
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Does Paternity Leave Promote Gender Equality within Households?
González, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021
reaching an agreement of specialization in which the wife specializes in raising kids (home production) while the husband works …
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Teaching and Learning Alternatives to a Comparative Advantage Motivation for Trade
Self, James K.; Becker, William E. - 2015
Introductory economics courses emphasize opportunity cost, comparative advantage and specialization to show the … benefits of trade. We assert that this emphasize leads to erroneous student mindset that trade requires specialization based on … comparative advantage. We test students who have been exposed to the typical textbook and classroom presentation of specialization …
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What Does Trade Openness Measure?
Fujii, Eiji - 2017
An empirical measure of trade openness is defined as the ratio of total trade to GDP, and represents a convenient variable routinely used for cross-country studies on a variety of issues. However, the effects that the crude measure captures remain ambiguous, making it difficult to interpret the...
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The paper examines of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organisation away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the exsisting literature on the division of labour...
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Did COVID-19 Affect the Division of Labor within the Household? Evidence from Two Waves of the Pandemic in Italy
Boca, Daniela Del; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on families’ lives, with parents all over the world struggling to meet the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women, particularly in countries with a traditionally...
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Division of Labor and the Organization of Knowledge in Production : A Laboratory Experiment
Klockmann, Victor; von Schenk, Alicia; von Siemens, … - 2021
Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire common knowledge. But if efficient production requires...
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Vertical Specialization, International Task Fragmentation, and Convergence
Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2021
specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small developing country. Among other results, we show that a small …
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