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Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages: Evidence from Mexico’s Maquiladoras

by A B *robert C. Feenstra, Gordon H. Hanson - Journal of International Economics , 1997
"... In this paper, we examine the increase in relative wages for skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. Rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to foreign capital inflows. We study the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the skilled labor share of wages in Mexico over 1975–1988. We meas ..."
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In this paper, we examine the increase in relative wages for skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. Rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to foreign capital inflows. We study the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the skilled labor share of wages in Mexico over 1975–1988. We

Informed Prefetching and Caching

by R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson, Eka Ginting, Daniel Stodolsky, Jim Zelenka - In Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles , 1995
"... The underutilization of disk parallelism and file cache buffers by traditional file systems induces I/O stall time that degrades the performance of modern microprocessor-based systems. In this paper, we present aggressive mechanisms that tailor file system resource management to the needs of I/O-int ..."
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accesses. Our approach estimates the impact of alternative buffer allocations on application execution time and applies a cost-benefit analysis to allocate buffers where they will have the greatest impact. We implemented informed prefetching and caching in DEC’s OSF/1 operating system and measured its

Labor supply response to the earned income tax credit. The Quarterly

by Nada Eissa, Jeffrey, B. Liebman - Journal of Economics , 1996
"... This paper examines the impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86), which included an expansion of the earned income tax credit, on the labor force participation and hours of work of single women with children. We identify the impact of TRA86 by comparing the change in labor supply of single women ..."
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This paper examines the impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86), which included an expansion of the earned income tax credit, on the labor force participation and hours of work of single women with children. We identify the impact of TRA86 by comparing the change in labor supply of single

Analogical Mapping by Constraint Satisfaction

by Keith J. Holyoak, Paul Thagard - COGNITIVE SCIENCE 13, 29-5 (1989) , 1989
"... A theory of analogical mopping between source and target analogs based upon interacting structural, semantic, and pragmatic constraints is proposed here. The structural constraint of fsomorphfsm encourages mappings that maximize the consistency of relational corresondences between the elements of th ..."
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A theory of analogical mopping between source and target analogs based upon interacting structural, semantic, and pragmatic constraints is proposed here. The structural constraint of fsomorphfsm encourages mappings that maximize the consistency of relational corresondences between the elements

Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach

by Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, Ernest Sergenti - Journal of Political Economy , 2004
"... Estimating the impact of economic conditions on the likelihood of civil conflict is difficult because of endogeneity and omitted variable bias. We use rainfall variation as an instrumental variable for economic growth in 41 African countries during 1981–99. Growth is strongly negatively related to c ..."
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Estimating the impact of economic conditions on the likelihood of civil conflict is difficult because of endogeneity and omitted variable bias. We use rainfall variation as an instrumental variable for economic growth in 41 African countries during 1981–99. Growth is strongly negatively related

Venture Capital and the Professionalization of Start-up Firms: Empirical Evidence

by Thomas Hellmann, Manju Puri - Journal of Finance , 2002
"... This paper examines the impact venture capital can have on the development of new firms. Using a hand-collected data set on Silicon Valley start-ups, we find that venture capital is related to a variety of professionalization measures, such as human resource policies, the adoption of stock option pl ..."
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This paper examines the impact venture capital can have on the development of new firms. Using a hand-collected data set on Silicon Valley start-ups, we find that venture capital is related to a variety of professionalization measures, such as human resource policies, the adoption of stock option

Heart and mind in conflict: Interplay of affect and cognition in consumer decision making

by Baba Shiv, Alexander Fedorikhin - Journal of Consumer Research , 1999
"... This article examines how consumer decision making is influenced by automat-ically evoked task-induced affect and by cognitions that are generated in a more controlled manner on exposure to alternatives in a choice task. Across two experiments respondents chose between two alternatives: one (chocola ..."
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resources is high, cognitions related to the conse-quences of choosing the alternatives tend to have a bigger impact on choice compared to when the availability of these resources is low. As a result, the consumer is more likely to choose the alternative that is inferior on the affective

A molecular view of microbial diversity and the biosphere. Science 276:734–740

by Norman R. Pace , 1997
"... Over three decades of molecular-phylogenetic studies, researchers have compiled an increasingly robust map of evolutionary diversification showing that the main diversity of life is microbial, distributed among three primary relatedness groups or domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. The general ..."
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ecosystems without the traditional requirement for cultivation has resulted in the discovery of many unexpected evolutionary lineages; members of some of these lineages are only distantly related to known organisms but are sufficiently abundant that they are likely to have impact on the chemistry

Querying the Internet with PIER

by Ryan Huebsch, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Nick Lanham, Boon Thau Loo, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica - IN VLDB , 2003
"... The database research community prides itself on scalable technologies. Yet database systems traditionally do not excel on one important scalability dimension: the degree of distribution. This limitation has hampered the impact of database technologies on massively distributed systems like the Inter ..."
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The database research community prides itself on scalable technologies. Yet database systems traditionally do not excel on one important scalability dimension: the degree of distribution. This limitation has hampered the impact of database technologies on massively distributed systems like

Measuring Bottleneck Link Speed in Packet-Switched Networks

by Robert L. Carter, Mark E. Crovella - PERFORMANCE EVALUATION , 1996
"... The quality of available network connections can often have a large impact on the performance of distributed applications. For example, document transfer applications such as FTP, Gopher and the World Wide Web suffer increased response times as a result of network congestion. For these applications, ..."
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The quality of available network connections can often have a large impact on the performance of distributed applications. For example, document transfer applications such as FTP, Gopher and the World Wide Web suffer increased response times as a result of network congestion. For these applications
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