Abstract While the research literature on regional dialect levelling is substantial (e.g. Williams and Kerswill 1999 ; Britain 2002 Watt Jansen 2019 ), this process under-explored under-theorised when it comes to patterns of lexical usage. Using maid as a case-study, in article I provide detailed account processes Cornwall. consider usage from two perspectives, that onomasiology semasiology. Fr...

This paper examines the effects of trade openness on the optimal incentives firms provide to their managers (and hence firm-level productivity) in the new heterogeneous-firm trade framework. Export market selection and firm heterogeneity are shown to be the key determinants of firm owners’ optimal choices of the incentive contracts, which affect the cost-reduction efforts of their managers. I s...

We construct a time-variant, price-based measure of trade distortions in 28 manufacturing industries for a large sample of countries over the last four decades, documenting facts consistent with the argument that changes in relative prices are an important channel through which an economy’s openness affects outcomes. First, we find that price distortions at the aggregate level are negatively as...

The implications of intersectoral factor reallocation costs (FRC) for economic growth are investigated by employing a stylised two-sector growth model with explicit FRC. It is shown that FRC are important to understand a number of empirical facts on economic growth: (i) Flexible economies are more likely to take advantage of favourable technology shocks. This mechanism might explain why some ec...

This paper provides a unified framework for quantifying the cross-country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation, knowledge diffusion. is used to study effect of trade liberalization in an endogenous growth model which comparative advantage stock are determined by innovation The calibrated match observed heterogeneity production, efficiency, spillovers. counterfactual analysis sh...

We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment was driven by new cohorts entering labor market. A dataset policy reforms supports an interpretation these cohort effects as human capital. Using a model frictional reallocation, we conclude capital growth led to sharp supply, accounting, at fixed prices, for 40 percent decrease employment. This aggregate effect is ha...

The cloud computing is the architecture which has decentralized in nature. The cloud computing is the architecture in which virtual machines, hosts and data centers are involved in the communication. The virtual machines are responsible to execute the cloudlet which is assigned by the virtual machine. The virtual machines get overloaded when more task is assigned to the virtual machines. In thi...

Global climatological data are often evaluated in grids with perpendicular boundaries in a cylinder projection of the longitude and latitude circles of the earth. Typical datasets contain 10 6 to 10 8 values. Each dataset is organized in a diierent grid, according to the authors's preferences. When calculating the global radiation over the ocean, for example, it is essential that cloud data fro...

Distributed and dynamic task reallocation in multi-robot organization is motivated by the fact that most critical information for organizational performance must be obtained during problem solving and static techniques for task allocation cannot take the dynamic information into account. This paper presents Distributed Organizational Task Network (DOTN) as a representation for the problem, and ...

This paper is an extended abstract of a work in progress, which proposes latent Dirichlet reallocation (LDR), a probabilistic model for text data from different dialects over a shared vocabulary. LDR first uses a topic model to allocate word probabilities to vocabulary terms; it then uses a subtopic model to allow for a possible reallocation of probability between a few potentially swappable te...