We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain … increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge …

in specialized and component based knowledge are a major source of benefits. In this important case, strictly …

We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain … increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge …

This paper explores the organisation and codification of knowledge in software firms. It analyses various economic … services. It compares their capabilities, main sources of tacit knowledge, specific incentives to invest in knowledge …

An increasing amount of knowledge is produced in teams rather than by individuals, an effect that is often attributed …

Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour gives rise to a new and richer institutional analysis of the … economy centred around the analysis of language, the division of labour and social knowledge. It is in this perspective that … of labour, starting from methodological problems on the communication of scientific knowledge. The volume goes on to …

This paper studies the impact of knowledge specialization on earnings losses following displacement. We develop a novel … measure of the specialization of human capital, based on how concentrated the knowledge used in an occupation is. Combining …-displacement knowledge specialization increases the earnings losses post-displacement by 3 to 4 pp per year in the US, and by 1.5 to 2 pp per …