1.
The Nature of Man
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 4-19, Summer 1994
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 24 Nov 1997
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
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34,036
2.
Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation
Economics and Statistics Administration Issue Brief No. 04-11
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 26 Nov 2011
Working Paper Series
Office of the Chief Economist, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Government of the United States of America - Bureau of the Census, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, National Science Foundation and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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15,078
3.
The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Harvard Business School Research Working Paper No. 11-100
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 03 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 01 May 2017
Working Paper Series
London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
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12,403
4.
Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices
Journal of Financial Economics 101(3), 621-640, September 2011
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 19 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 19 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
Downloads
9,925
5.
How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, Jobs, and Skills
Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-49
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 15 Nov 2015
Last Revised: 04 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law
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8,535
6.
The Changing of the Boards: The Impact on Firm Valuation of Mandated Female Board Representation
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, vol. 127(1): 137-197.
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 21 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 16 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads
7,812
7.
The Norway Model
Journal of Portfolio Management, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2012, pages 67–81,
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 04 Oct 2011
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Department of Finance & Accounting, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and AQR Capital Management
Downloads
7,557
8.
Human Resource Accounting - A New Dimension
Canadian Accounting Association (CAAA) 2006 Annual Conference
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 10 Feb 2007
Working Paper Series
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) rohtak and Independent
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6,059
9.
Irrational Optimism
Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1, 2004, pages 16–25, LBS Accounting Subject Area Working Paper No. IFA397,
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 21 Dec 2003
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
There are 2 versions of this paper
Irrational Optimism
Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1, 2004, pages 16–25, LBS Accounting Subject Area Working Paper No. IFA397,
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 21 Dec 2003
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2016
Downloads
5,836
Irrational Optimism
Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 15-25, January/February 2004
Posted: 15 Feb 2004
Downloads
5,836
10.
Life-Cycle Finance in Theory and in Practice
Boston University School of Management Working Paper No. 2002-02
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 13 Jun 2002
Working Paper Series
Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics
Downloads
5,787
11.
Asymmetric Information and Entrepreneurship
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 21 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 14 Oct 2018
Working Paper Series
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Loughborough University
Downloads
5,380
12.
Running Experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 5, No. 5, 411-419
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 01 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 25 Jan 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Erasmus University - Rotterdam School of Management, Princeton University - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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5,360
13.
Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 23 May 2013
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 23 May 2013
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2014
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5,351
Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda
DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1201
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 01 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 24 May 2013
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421
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5,351
14.
Are We Selling Results or Résumés?: The Underexplored Linkage between Human Resource Strategies and Firm-Specific Capital
Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 105
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 16 Apr 2008
Last Revised: 20 Aug 2008
Working Paper Series
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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4,831
15.
Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?
Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2014
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 10 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Research Group
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4,577
16.
The Economic Value of a Law Degree
HLS Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper No. 2013-6
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 14 Apr 2013
Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Amazon.com
There are 3 versions of this paper
The Economic Value of a Law Degree
HLS Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper No. 2013-6
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 14 Apr 2013
Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014
Downloads
4,489
The Economic Value of a Law Degree, Powerpoint Presentation
2013 American Law & Economics Conference, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee
Number of pages: 129
Posted: 26 May 2013
Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014
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2,065
The Economic Value of a Law Degree
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 16 Jan 2014
Last Revised: 25 Nov 2014
Downloads
460
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4,489
17.
Effective Virtual Teams Through Communities of Practice
Strathclyde Business School Management Science Working Paper No. 2000/9
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 24 Dec 2004
Working Paper Series
Kedge Business School, Glasgow Caledonian University - Caledonian Business School and Strathclyde Business School - Department of Management Science
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4,456
18.
Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?
Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2012), pp. 347-383, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-07
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 02 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 28 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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4,454
19.
Real World Index Annuity Returns
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 07 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 06 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School - Finance and Insurance Departments, Webster University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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4,431
20.
The Rise of the 'Just-in-Time Workforce': On-Demand Work, Crowd Work and Labour Protection in the 'Gig-Economy'
Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Forthcoming, Bocconi Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2682602
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 02 Nov 2015
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
KU Leuven - Faculty of Law
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4,225
21.
Are Recent College Graduates Finding Good Jobs?
Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 13 Jan 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Research Group and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Downloads
4,210
22.
Are CEOs Different? Characteristics of Top Managers
Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-27, Paris December 2016 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 15 Mar 2016
Last Revised: 10 Aug 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Copenhagen Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Are CEOs Different? Characteristics of Top Managers
Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-27, Paris December 2016 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 15 Mar 2016
Last Revised: 10 Aug 2017
Downloads
4,084
Are CEOS Different? Characteristics of Top Managers
NBER Working Paper No. w23832
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 18 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 27 Sep 2017
Downloads
30
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4,084
23.
Asset Valuations and Safe Portfolio Withdrawal Rates
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 28 Jun 2013
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2013
Working Paper Series
Morningstar Investment Management, The American College and The American College
Downloads
4,039
24.
Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 27 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 22 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and World Bank
Downloads
3,816
25.
Catching Up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 14-23, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 16-17
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 30 Jul 2014
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads
3,759
26.
The Link Between Job Satisfaction and Firm Value, with Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility
Academy of Management Perspectives 26(4), 1-19, November 2012
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 08 May 2012
Last Revised: 19 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
Downloads
3,500
27.
Public Pension Plan Reform: The Legal Framework
Education, Finance & Policy, Vol. 5, 2010, Minnesota Legal Studies Research No. 10-13
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 24 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Law
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3,463
28.
Economic Analysis of Law
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 316, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 536
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 29 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School
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3,450
29.
Social Animal House: The Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 14 Apr 2016
Last Revised: 19 May 2017
Working Paper Series
10 Thoughts, Union College - Department of Economics and Union College - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Social Animal House: The Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 14 Apr 2016
Last Revised: 19 May 2017
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3,418
Social Animal House: The Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership
Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp. 263-276, 2018
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 22 Feb 2018
Downloads
1
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3,418
30.
Human Capital, Asset Allocation, and Life Insurance
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 05-11
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 13 May 2005
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management, Ibbotson Associates, York University - Schulich School of Business and Ibbotson Associates
There are 2 versions of this paper
Human Capital, Asset Allocation, and Life Insurance
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 05-11
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 13 May 2005
Downloads
3,386
Human Capital, Asset Allocation, and Life Insurance
Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 97-109, January/February 2006
Posted: 03 May 2006
Downloads
3,386
31.
Who is Hit Hardest During a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4359
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 18 Aug 2009
Working Paper Series
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Downloads
3,230
32.
The 4% Rule - At What Price?
Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM), Third Quarter 2009
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Last Revised: 10 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Financial Engines, Inc., Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Financial Engines, Inc.
Downloads
3,212
33.
A Guide to Starting Social Security Benefits
Journal of Retirement Planning, July-August 2008, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE08-025
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 04 Aug 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads
3,201
34.
Rewriting History
AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 09 Mar 2006
Last Revised: 18 May 2010
Working Paper Series
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, Harvard Business School and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce
There are 2 versions of this paper
Rewriting History
AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 09 Mar 2006
Last Revised: 18 May 2010
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3,161
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134
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3,161
35.
Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance
Organization Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 164
Posted: 18 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Wharton, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads
3,057
36.
The Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work on Income and Health: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 27 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 10 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and University of Oxford - Department of Economics
There are 3 versions of this paper
The Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work on Income and Health: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 27 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 10 Oct 2017
Downloads
2,980
Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10255
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 10 Oct 2016
Downloads
68
Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work
NBER Working Paper No. w22683
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 26 Sep 2016
Downloads
5
Downloads
2,980
37.
Life-Cycle Funds
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 May 2007
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads
2,955
38.
Female Labour Force Participation: Past Trends and Main Determinants in OECD Countries
OECD Working Paper No. 376
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 25 Oct 2013
Working Paper Series
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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2,928
39.
Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
HKS Working Paper No. RWP12-028, Kreisman Working Papers Series in Housing Law and Policy No. 49
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 11 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 11 Dec 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
HKS Working Paper No. RWP12-028, Kreisman Working Papers Series in Housing Law and Policy No. 49
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 11 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 11 Dec 2018
Downloads
2,789
Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
NBER Working Paper No. w23609
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 Jul 2017
Downloads
36
Downloads
2,789
40.
Taxation and the Allocation of Talent
Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 08 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 08 Aug 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Microsoft Research New York City
Downloads
2,755
41.
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 03-22
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 15 Jul 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 03-22
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 15 Jul 2003
Downloads
2,747
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
NBER Working Paper No. w9873
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 29 Jul 2003
Last Revised: 04 Nov 2010
Downloads
231
Downloads
2,747
42.
High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1265
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 25 Aug 2004
Working Paper Series
Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI-Essen)
Downloads
2,735
43.
The Diversity-Bandwidth Tradeoff
American Journal of Sociology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 22 Jan 2007
Last Revised: 31 Jul 2011
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Boston University – Questrom School of Business
Downloads
2,681
44.
Freedom of Dress: State and Private Regulation of Clothing, Hairstyle, Jewelry, Makeup, Tattoos, and Piercing
Maryland Law Review, Vol. 66, p. 11, 2006, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 177, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 872324
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 29 Dec 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Southwestern Law School
Downloads
2,674
45.
Measuring Education Inequality: Gini Coefficients of Education
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2525
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 29 Jan 2001
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Brazil, Cornell University and The World Bank
Downloads
2,640
46.
Job Creation or Destruction? Labor-Market Effects of Wal-Mart Expansion
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 87, No. 1, February 2005
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 03 Mar 2003
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2007
Accepted Paper Series
U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies
Downloads
2,632
47.
Risk-Based Student Loans
Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, p. 527, 2013
Number of pages: 122
Posted: 08 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 05 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Risk-Based Student Loans
Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, p. 527, 2013
Number of pages: 122
Posted: 08 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 05 May 2013
Downloads
2,625
Risk Based Student Loans -- Powerpoint Presentation
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 01 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 15 Apr 2013
Downloads
481
Downloads
2,625
48.
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
Number of pages: 119
Posted: 18 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 25 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Exeter Business School - Department of Economics and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital
There are 3 versions of this paper
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
Number of pages: 119
Posted: 18 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 25 Oct 2016
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2,594
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence on Adult Noncognitive Investments in Liberia
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7648
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 22 Apr 2016
Downloads
34
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
NBER Working Paper No. w21204
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 26 May 2015
Downloads
7
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2,594
49.
The Impact of the Recent Migration from Eastern Europe on the UK Economy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2615
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 11 Mar 2007
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, Bank of England and Bank of England
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2,544
50.
Human Capital Development and Innovation: The Case of Training in Small and Medium-Sized Firms
Statistics Canada Working Paper 74
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 10 Jul 1996
Working Paper Series
Statistics Canada - Microeconomic Analysis Division and Statistics Canada
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2,522
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