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Determinants of Student Choice of Undergraduate Major Field

Cebula, Richard; Lopes, Jerry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1981

This paper investigates the determinants of student choice of undergraduate major field. It argues that this choice depends on a variety of pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors. After allowing for the recent trends toward Accounting and Business Administration, the empirical results indicate...

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The Bargaining Power of Health Care Unions: Union Wage Premiums for Registered Nurses in Hospitals

Coombs, Christopher; Newman, Robert; Cebula, Richard; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

For the first time in its history, the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses in 2008 includes a question involving union status. This study utilizes the data from this sample to estimate the union/non-union wage premium for registered nurses and among some of the occupational, workplace,...

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More on Analyzing the Phillips Curve for the United States, 1950-1975

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979

This study has questioned the use of single-equation estimates so common in the analysis of the Phillips curve relation. The analysis in Section II and the empirical results in both Sections III and IV suggest that further research on the Phillips curve relation should consider the merits of...

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Determinants of Migration to Central Cities: A Comment

Cebula, Richard; Curran, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1973

This study critiques a prior study of migration determinants according to race, i.e., white migration versus nonwhite migration, to central cities in the U.S. We find evidence strongly suggesting simultaneity bias. In addition, the specification in the article being evaluated is flawed because...

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Determinants of Business Failure: A Time Series Analysis

Assadian, Afsaneh; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1989

This paper seeks to empirically analyze the determinants of the business failure rate, i.e., the proportion of businesses that fail. This issue is of obvious importance due to its ramifications for resource allocation, especially that of financial capital, physical capital, and labor. This...

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Manufacturing on the Move

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

This paper evaluates a study by Robert Crandall that empirically examines the shift in manufacturing employment and … principal explanation of this growth of manufacturing employment and output in the West and South. He also provided evidence … differentials between the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt in terms of wages and the degree of unionization have not significantly …

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Impact of Property Rights in Human Capital on Regional Factors Proportions

Gallaway, Lowell; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1971

Although the case for treating human capital as a productive factor is clear, its introduction presents complications since ownership of (or property rights in) human capital cannot be separated from the ownership of (or property rights in) labor itself. Consider a two-region economy. When labor...

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A Note on Migration, Economic Opportunity, and the Quality of Life

Cebula, Richard; Vedder, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1972

This study empirically investigates the impact of not only economic opportunity but also the quality of life, including environmental dimensions, on net in-migration over the 1960-1968 period. Investment is treated as an investment decision. Using available data for the largest SMSAs in the U.S....

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Real Earnings and Human Migration in the United States

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1981

This study seeks to fill a void in the empirical migration literature, namely, to allow expressly for geographic living-cost differentials. The study focuses upon net migration to SMSAs over the period 1960-1970. The analysis involves two alternative treatments of living costs, one being to...

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Teaching How Private Enterprise Works Using Professional Sports: A Brief Note on the Case of Individual NHL Players' Salaries

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

As private enterprises in the U.S. and Canada, franchises in the National Hockey League (NHL) can be presumed to be firms pursuing maximum profits. Part of this pursuit involves the negotiation between NHL players and management of player salaries, which (among other things) must be consistent...

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