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The Role of University Characteristics in Determining Post-Graduation Outcomes: Panel Evidence from Three Recent Canadian Cohorts

Betts, Julian; Ferrall, Christopher; Finnie, Ross - 2006

students' subsequent earnings. Models that do not condition on a student's major show increased effects of changes in a …

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Accounting for the racial property crime gap in the US: A quantitative equilibrium analysis

Cozzi, Marco - 2010

This paper studies the effects of both labor market conditions and asset poverty on the property crimes involvement of American males. Since the mid 60's the property crimes arrest rate has been four times higher for black males if compared to white ones. Another set of stylised facts show for...

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Property rights, standards of living, and economic growth: Western Canadian Cree

Carlos, Ann M.; Lewis, Frank - 2010

The Great Divergence in standards of living for populations around the world occurred in the late 18th century. Prior to that date evidence suggests that real wages of most Europeans, many living in China and India were similar. Some a little higher and some a little lower but with a low...

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Oil stock discovery and Dutch Disease

Hartwick, John; Hamilton, Kirk - 2009

We set out a model of a two-good, small open economy exporting a traditional exportable in order to finance capital goods rental payments. We observe that the traditional export sector declines with an exogenous increase in the country's oil export earnings, while the local goods sector expands....

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Oil stock discovery and Dutch disease

Hamilton, Kirk; Hartwick, John - 2008

We set out a model of a small open economy exporting oil and a traditional exportable in return for produced capital. The small open economy also has local production of a non-traded good. We first observe that the size of the traditional export sector declines with an exogenous increase in the...

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Sexual identity and the marriage premium

Lafrance, Amélie; Warman, Casey; Woolley, Frances - 2009

sets containing both income and sexual orientation information (Carpenter, 2008). Partnered gay and bisexual men spend more …

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Markets, income and policy in a unified macroeconomic framework

Sun, Hongfei - 2011

framework is analytically tractable despite search frictions, income risks and endogenous money distributions. I use this … framework to formalize a theory that the variety and the functioning of markets reflect the status of national income. In the … sufficiently high expected real income. Uninsurable idiosyncratic income risks cause households to endogenously sort into various …

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Inflation and the Savings Rate

Davidson, Russell; MacKinnon, James G. - 1982

observed relationship arises primarily because, in times of inflation, measured income and measured savings overstate the …

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Growth and the Standard of Living in a Pioneer Economy: Upper Canada, 1826 to 1851

Lewis, Frank D.; Urquhart, M.C. - 1997

Building on the work of McCalla, McInnis and others we describe the early income of Upper Canada over the period 1826 … conjectural estimates of farm income; and various Provincial Accounts help us describe the pattern of trade as well as the …

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The Australian universities: A study in public policy failure

Milne, Frank - 2001

Over the last decade and a half, the Australian Universities have been subjected to a series of reforms introduced by the Australian Commonwealth Government. This paper discusses these reforms, subsequent policy changes, and their impact on the Australian university system. I will argue that the...

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