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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021
Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...
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Multitasking and wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
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Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2015
of study. These differences can in most cases be attributed to self-selection. A notable exception is economics. Even … though self-selection is also important, training in economics has an unambiguous influence on the political attitudes: by … the time of graduation, economics students are about 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were as freshmen to agree …
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