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Financial Risk-Taking and the Gender Wage Gap

Edin, Per-Anders and Håkan Selin. 2022. Financial Risk-Taking and the Gender Wage Gap. Labour Economics, 75, 102144. https://doi.org/10.1016...

Per-Ander Edin Per-Ander Edin

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The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill

Edin, Per-Anders, Peter Fredriksson, Martin Nybom and Björn Öckert. 2022. The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill. American Economic Journal...

Per-Ander Edin Per-Ander Edin

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On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects in the case of South Africa

Müller, Moritz, Robin Cowan and Helena Barnard. 2018. On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effect...

Robin Cowan Robin Cowan

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Neo-Abolitionism: The Case Against the Employer-Employee System

The controversial institution in the economic system throughout most of the world is not the market or private property but the employer-employee relationship.

David Ellerman David Ellerman
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