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Extending Industry Specialization Through Cross-Border Acquisitions
Frésard, Laurent - 2016
We investigate the role of industry specialization in horizontal cross-border mergers and acquisitions. We find that acquirers from more specialized industries in a country are more likely to buy foreign targets in countries that are less specialized in these same industries. The role of...
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The Determinants of Quality Specialization
Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2016
A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods. Two hypotheses may explain such specialization, with different implications for welfare, inequality, and trade policy. Fajgelbaum, Grossman, and Helpman (2011) formalize the Linder hypothesis that home demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980681
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Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities : Evidence from U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1880
Kim, Sukkoo - 2006
were adopted by an ever growing number of industries, industrialization became concentrated in cities throughout the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780067
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Computers, Work Organization, and Wage Outcomes
Cappelli, Peter; Carter, William Harmon - 2021
We examine two factors frequently thought to be changing the U.S. workplace, high performance work practices and computer use, and their relationships with pay using a national probability sample of U.S. establishments. The analysis controls for both organizational and individual characteristics...
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Trade and Industrialisation after Globalisation's 2nd Unbundling : How Building and Joining a Supply Chain are Different and Why it Matters
Baldwin, Richard - 2013
domestically. These changes have not been fully reflected in "high development theory" - a lacuna that may lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091898
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
with disdain for work. We propose an economic theory of preference formation where both the divergence of attitudes across … social classes and the ensuing reversal of economic fortunes are equilibrium outcomes. In our theory, parents shape their …, which are rooted in the nature of pre-industrial professions, become key determinants of success once industrialization …
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Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000
Michaels, Guy - 2013
We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations using over 3,000 verbs from more than 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOTs). Using micro-data from the United States from 1880-2000, we find an increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088397
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Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine : An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States
Meltzer, David - 2010
General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who care for their patients in both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care (hospitalists) and ambulatory-based care primary care...
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Specialization, Transactions Technologies, and Money Growth
Cole, Harold L. - 2010
With some models of money and a representative-agent there is no reason for monetary trade because identical individuals can consume their own production. Lucas proposed a parable involving differentiated products in a cash-in-advance model to avoid this problem. This paper studies Lucas?s...
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Production Chains
Levine, David K. - 2010
. The implications of the theory both for measurement and government policy are examined …
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