specialization on performance. Using runners who specialize in 400 m races should increase overall team performance as long as … specialization does not lead to an inefficient allocation of team human capital. An additional performance measure is used examining …

economies falter, it is because new ideas of more extensive specialization fail to emerge. Ideas make further divisions of the … specialization …

Theory offers conflicting predictions on whether and how lenders' sectoral specialization would affect firms … patent data and micro-level innovation survey data, we find that lenders' sectoral specialization improves innovation for … variation in bank specialization. We further show that these heterogeneous effects arise through financial contracting. Overall …

the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender. -- Immigration ; gender ; task … specialization ; complements ; substitutes ; Spain …

the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender …

specialization. In this model, I show how trade liberalization will result in reallocation of high skilled workers within an industry … degree of labor specialization within high-skilled or low-skilled workers, to reduce their marginal costs, and to evolve into …

that the marriage earnings gap fell for women in fixed-effect estimates implying that the impact of specialization has …

Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that … occupations. In contrast, foreign workers specialize in low-paying manual activities. This enhanced degree of task specialization …