Browsing Articles by Author "Aydede, Yigit"

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Economic benefits of studying economics in Canada: a comparison of wages of economics majors with wages in other fields of study, circa 2005

Akbari, Syed Ather Hussain; Aydede, Yigit (Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, 2015)

We compared the wages of economics degree holders with of those in 49 other fields of study using data from the 2006 Canadian population census. At the undergraduate level, economics majors earned the sixth highest average ...
Is the lower return to immigrants’ foreign schooling a post arrival problem in Canada?

Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul (Springer, 2017-02-27)

Using the 2006 Canadian Census, this paper investigates the lower return to immigrants’ foreign education credentials after adjusting for their occupational matching in hosting labor markets. We develop two continuous ...

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