relative advantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandadvantage
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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advantage
noun
uk/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Conversely, non-use of computers can be attributed to their low relevance and 'relativeadvantage' to older people.
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This reduction in resources enhances the processing demands of the task and increases therelativeadvantageof the bilinguals.
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Furthermore, the husband's evaluation of hisrelativeadvantage\\disadvantage in current resources is expected to affect his anticipated dependence on his wife.
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Therelativeadvantageof direct as opposed to indirect incentives depends on the curvature of the profit relationship.
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Independent adulthood is the key to inclusion andrelativeadvantage, whilst childhood, youth and later life are characterised as socially disadvantaged or marginalised positions.
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The overall class gradient in private pension income remained fairly stable over the eight-year period but therelativeadvantageof different occupational groups changed.
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An innovation can be characterized in several dimensions, namely itsrelativeadvantage, compatibility, complexity, triability and its observability31.
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Thisrelativeadvantageto families with three or more children was based, to some extent, on a consensus which still exists today.
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Relativeadvantagerefers to the degree to which an innovation is perceived as better than the idea it supersedes (17;48).
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Girls were also at arelativeadvantageon teacher-rated problems and grades.
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He also reports that therelativeadvantagefor women is regained more rapidly among collectivist nations that seek to integrate work and family.
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However, gender inequality in the amount received had widened and therelativeadvantageof different occupational groups had changed.
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Therelativeadvantageis expressed in terms of cost, social prestige, convenience and satisfaction.
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Therelativeadvantageof alley farming in a society or community depends on land availability, and fertilizer and feed prices.
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Relativeadvantagerefers to the degree to which an innovation is perceived as better than the idea it supersedes (14;40).
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Second, mere enhancement ofrelativeadvantage(competition) and equality in outcomes (egalitarianism) are irrelevant in this particular situation, because all four cells present equal outcomes for self and other.
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Sheth et al. (1999)32 asserted that therelativeadvantageof an innovation determines its adoption.
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Perceivedrelativeadvantageof alternative choices as the function of the fraction of agents of particular choice is crucial in determining macroeconomic behavior of such models.
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Such countries might lose therelativeadvantagethat they now enjoy through special trade preferences.
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