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CEP discussion paper
Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs: a labor market sorting view

We show, theoretically and empirically, that the effects of technological change associated with automation and offshoring on the labor market can substantially deviate from standard neoclassical conclusions when search ...Read more...

Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

29 May 2020

CEP discussion paper
Measuring the gains from labor specialization

We estimate the productivity effects of labor specialization using a judicial environment that offers a quasi-experimental setting well suited to this purpose. Judges in this environment are randomly assigned many differ...Read more...

Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico

12 November 2019

CEP discussion paper
Labor specialization as a source of market frictions

This paper investigates why labor specialization brings additional frictions to the labor market. The intuition is that labor specialized firms rely on complementarity and firm-specific human capital, assigning high valu...Read more...

Maria Molina-Domene

30 October 2018

CEP discussion paper
Specialization matters in the firm size-wage gap

This study applies the O-ring theory to explain the firm-size wage premium. It focuses on the joint role of the division of labor and employee characteristics. Including the firm heterogeneity of occupations in a standar...Read more...

Maria Molina-Domene

1 May 2018

CEP discussion paper
Specialization in bank lending: evidence from exporting firms

We develop an empirical approach for identifying specialization in bank lending using granular data on borrower activities. We illustrate the approach by characterizing bank specialization by export market, combining ban...Read more...

Daniel Paravisini, Veronica Rappoport and Philipp Schnabl

24 July 2017

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Specialization and Regional Economic Development

Debates about urban growth and change often center on specialization.However, arguments linking specialization to metropolitan economic development contain diverse, and sometimes conflicting, claims. Is it better to be h...Read more...

Thomas Kemeny and Michael Storper

6 December 2012

CEP discussion paper
The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization

What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be cost...Read more...

Guy Michaels

December 2006

CEP discussion paper
Superstars and Renaissance Men: Specialization, Market Size and the Income Distribution

A general equilibrium model of individual specialization is presented in which agents trade off the productivity and price implications of producing a narrower range of goods. Agents with highly specific skills turn out ...Read more...

Richard Walker

November 2005

CEP discussion paper
Volatility and Development

Why is GDP growth so much more volatile in poor countries than in rich ones? We identify four possible reasons: (i) poor countries specialize in more volatile sectors; (ii) poor countries specialize in fewer sectors; (ii...Read more...

Miklos Koren and Silvana Tenreyro

November 2005

CEP discussion paper
Educational Attainment, Labour Market Institutions, and the Structure of Production

A key feature of OECD economic growth since the early 1970s has been the secular decline in manufacturing's share of GDP and the secular rise of service sectors. This paper examines the role played by relative prices, t...Read more...

Stephen Nickell, Stephen J. Redding and Joanna Swaffield

September 2002

CEP discussion paper
Factor Endowments and Production in European Regions

This paper analyses patterns of production across 14 industries in 45 regions from 7 European countries since 1975. We estimate a structural equation derived directly from Heckscher-Ohlin theory that relates an industry'...Read more...

Stephen J. Redding and Mercedes Vera-Martin

July 2001