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This paper analyzes the effects of an educational system expansion on labour market outcomes, drawing upon a 15-year natural experiment in the Russian Federation. Regiona[...]
2013 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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This paper analyzes the differences in wage ratios of university graduates to less than university graduates, the education premium, in Canada and the United States from [...]
2009 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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Why do employed persons in large firms earn more than employed persons in small firms, even after controlling for observable characteristics? Complementary to previous re[...]
2008 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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This paper studies the choice between general and specific human capital. A trade-off arises because general human capital, while less productive, can easily be reallocat[...]
2007 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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In a search model of production, where agents accumulate heterogeneous amounts of human capital, an individual worker's wage depends on average human capital in the searc[...]
2005 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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The authors document the recent evolution of the self-employment rate in Canada. Between 1987 and 1998, the self-employment rate rose 3.5 percentage points from 13.8 per [...]
2005 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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Entrepreneurship is a key factor in promoting growth in output and employment. Consequently, to encourage new start-ups, most governments in developed countries have publ[...]
2004 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |