Specialization and trade allow individuals to consume beyond their production possibilities frontiers (this is true for individual people and individual nations). For what types of goods/services do you think the U.S. has a comparative advantage, and if t ...
–Producerswilltrytofindthemixofresourcesthatallowthemtoproducethemostgoodswiththelowestcost.•Humancapital•Specializationandtrade•Competition –Competitionforcesindividualsandbusinessestoinnovateandfindmoreproductivewaysofworking.HumanCapital •Humancapitalisdefinedastheskills,abilities,andknowledgethatpeopleacquire...
The estimates for the highest earner (or variations thereof) indicate whether individuals in different-sex couples specialize and take advantage of each other’s comparative earnings advantage. The estimates interacted with the same-sex dummy indicate whether individuals in same-sex couples specialize ...
Removal and damage of vegetation opens the canopy, creating gaps and artificial edges, and often lowers the average height of the canopy, thus altering the internal vertical habitat structure of the remaining forest and, in some cases, removing most or all individuals of the larger and older ...
We recorded individuals that had completed development in each treatment as survivors. Temperature- and species-specific survival probabilities during development were subsequently modelled using a logistic model (Methods). Additionally, we reared diapausing pupae (12 families from each species) that were ...
In contrast to results in some other models, we find that consumption of goods that are not purchased with money (analogous to leisure services or credit goods) can either rise or fall with a rise in the money growth rate. Finally, we allow for costly barter and examine individuals' ...
to connect these associated trophic compartments15. But ecologists are becoming increasingly aware that many generalist species are composed of individual specialists that use only a subset of the available habitats and prey16,17,18,19. Individuals may function as specialists while the population and ...
The question of whether individuals perform consistently across a variety of cognitive tasks is relevant for studies of comparative cognition. The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is an appropriate model to study cognitive consistency as its learning can be studied in multiple elemental and non-elemental le...
trade-offs The morphological and behavioural specialization of individuals to specific tasks is a common feature of complex insect societies (Maynard et al., 1995, Wilson, 1971). To infer specialization it is necessary to show that investment in one cooperative behaviour trades off against investment...
Lee and Clarke (2019) find a smaller but still positive multiplier in UK. In this case, those individuals who gain the most are unskilled workers. Gagliardi (2014) uses a different approach and different indicators. She studies the impact of innovation on LLMs by exploiting information on the...