Economic Benefits of Studying Economics in Canada: A Comparison of Wages of Economics Majors with those in Other Disciplines Circa 2005
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Keywords
Education; Economics degree ; Economic returns to human capital; Wage differentials;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2013-11-22 (Education)
- NEP-HRM-2013-11-22 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2013-11-22 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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