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City air or city markets: productivity gains in urban areas

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2007

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...

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Human capital externalities and the urban wage premium: two literatures and their interrelations

Halfdanarson, Benedikt; Heuermann, Daniel F.; Südekum, Jens - 2008

In this paper we survey the recent developments in two empirical literatures at the crossroads of labor and urban economics: Studies about localized human capital externalities (HCE) and about the urban wage premium (UWP). After surveying the methods and main results of each of these two...

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Division of labour and directed production

Ratto, Marisa; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2005

We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...

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Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Heine, Jens Michael - 2004

cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different …

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The effect of children on specialization and coordination of partners' activities

Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children on this specialization. It then examines the links between the time allocations of partners in couple families, the impact of children on these links, and the effects these...

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Rethinking Specialisation and the Sexual Division of Labour in the 21st Century

Siminski, Peter; Yetsenga, Rhiannon - 2020

within-household specialisation. We propose a set of indices which we believe are the first direct within-couple measures of … specialisation. We use these to present a rich descriptive profile of specialisation. Absolute advantage in market work has only a …-based specialisation is much greater. We consider whether the patterns in the data are consistent with a formal Beckerian model of …

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