How does International Trade Lead to Specialization? Specialization and Comparative Advantage How to Calculate Gains from Trade Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What is the relationship between specialization and comparative advantage? Specialization in international economics is when a nation focuses...
Teaching has clung to these industrial rhythms while professional norms and the larger labor market have changed. By the 1970s, however, schools could no longer depend on an influx of talented young women, as those who once would have entered teaching began to take jobs in engineering and law...
"The first two quarters of 2012, the whole home textile industry performance decline situation is more severe. The main reason is the downturn in the real estate industry. In 2011, real estate regulation affected downstream supporting industries, and consumer confidence in the domestic market was a...
However, like Steve I've gained more experience in the technologies I do support. What this means is sometimes requesting, justifying, and taking training courses and working in areas outside of what is typical of my job focus. For instance, last week I attending an SSAS class to refresh ...
Another was the growing professionalisation of scientific activity. No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professionals and amateurs in salience: exceptions can be found to any role. Nevertheless, the word amateur does carry a connotation that the person concerned is not fully integrated into...
vertical domains provides a specific abstraction of the solution that can then be mapped down to multiple horizontal domains. Which is starting to sound a little like what part of the vision of MDA was attempting to do, but we are not going into MDA versus Software Factories in this discussio...
use practices in western Africa for nine time-windows over the period 1800 BC–AD 1500. The maps are based on a broad synthesis of archaeological, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological, historical, linguistic, genetic, and ethnographic data, and present land use in 12 basic categories. The main ...
Tourism specialization seems to be a fruitful strategy in the short run but a competences destroying one in the long term. The reviewed literature does not focus on what is at stake in our opinion: the deplation of the natural capital. The major part of tourism income relies on the direct...
To improve our understanding of how humans contributed to the development of African landscapes, we developed an atlas of land-use practices in western Africa for nine time-windows over the period 1800 BC–AD 1500. The maps are based on a broad synthesis of archaeological, archaeobotanical, ...
In the European Union and its neighborhood, regional development has increasingly come to focus on agglomerations during the last three decades. Notably, during the 1990s and early 2000s, clustering was the major policy focus in regional development. Currently, the concept of smart specialization is...