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Comparative advantage and gender gap in STEM
Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2020
Why are females compared to males both more likely to have strong STEM-related performance and less likely to study STEM later on? We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece to identify the impact of comparative advantage in STEM relative to non-STEM subjects on STEM...
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Specialization, outsourcing and wages
Munch, Jakob Roland (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003302863
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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
The division of labor between and within countries is driven by two fundamental forces, comparative advantage and increasing returns. We set up a simple Ricardian model with a Marshallian input sharing mechanism to study their interplay. The key insight that emerges is that the interaction...
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Migration, knowledge diffusion and the comparative advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...
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Gender, comparative advantage and labor market activity in immigrant families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2001
The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401281
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Gender differences in teacher judgement of comparative advantage
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2023
Much research shows that students take account of their perceived comparative advantage in mathematics relative to verbal skills when choosing college majors and career tracks. There is also evidence for an important role for comparative advantage in explaining the gender gap in college STEM...
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Girls' comparative advantage in reading can largely account for the gender gap in math-intensive fields
Breda, Thomas; Napp, Clotilde - 2019
Gender differences in math performance are now small in developed countries and they cannot explain on their own the strong under-representation of women in math-related fields. This latter result is however no longer true once gender differences in reading performance are also taken into...
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Mismatch of talent : evidence on match quality, entry wages, and job mobility
Fredriksson, Peter; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2015
We examine the direct impact of idiosyncratic match quality on entry wages and job mobility using unique data on worker talents matched to job-indicators and individual wages. Tenured workers are clustered in jobs with high job-specific returns to their types of talents. We therefore measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408194
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The hold-down problem and the boundaries of the firm : lessons from a hidden action model with endogenous outside option
Schnedler, Wendelin; Sunde, Uwe - 2002
This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance arguments nor depends on ownership structure. We analyse a repeated hidden action model in which the actions of a risk neutral agent determine his future outside option. Consequently,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410683
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Delving into the demand side : changes in workplace specialization and job polarization
Cortes, Guido Matias; Salvatori, Andrea - 2016
evidence that suggests that the increase in non-routine cognitive workplaces is linked to the growth in outsourcing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520985