individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production …, but specialization requires communication and coordination between team members, and individuals with more social skills … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

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 …

We examine whether marriage leads to specialization in Sweden by implementing a model that differentiates … specialization in the household by cohabitation and marriage. Our paper evaluates this model using panel data to analyze trends in … explained by positive selection whereas the female marriage penalty reflects increased specialization in home production and …

, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …

, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the extent of the market for …

specialization and diversification mitigate wage depressing effects of different types of employment shocks. On the firm level, shock …