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Striking evidence is presented of a previously unremarked transformation of urban structure from mainly sectoral to mainly functional specialization. We offer an explanation showing that this transformation is inextricably interrelated with changes in firms' organization. A greater variety of...
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The comparative advantage of many cities is based on their efficiency in the production of ‘functions’, e.g., business services such as finance, law, engineering, or similar functions that are used by firms in a wide range of sectors. Firms that use these functions may choose to source them...
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and how these responses, in turn, are transmitted to the labor market. In previous work, we have argued that outsourcing … input purchases from the Census of Manufactures. We construct industry-by-industry estimates of outsourcing for the period … 1972-1990 and reexamine whether outsourcing has contributed to an increase in relative demand for skilled labor. Our main …
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Slaughter (1993), in this paper I try to determine the extent to which outsourcing by multinational corporations contributed to … firms. I find that most of these facts are inconsistent with widespread outsourcing. Second, to test more rigorously whether … and in fact may be price complements. Taken together, these findings indicate that multinational outsourcing contributed …
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In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of a study of choices about road safety, we suspect that the same issues plague the estimation of...
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This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from charging individuals with adverse health conditions...
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Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment-seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this tradeoff for subsidizing life-saving...
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resource. They thus delegate decision making to a social planner who allocates consumption efficiently across heterogeneous … this feature has normative appeal for public decision-making …
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Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...
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Ground-level ozone remains a serious problem in the United States. Because ozone non-attainment is a summer problem, episodic rather than continuous controls of ozone precursors are possible. We evaluate the costs and effectiveness of an episodic scheme that requires people to buy permits to...
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