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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
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Akbari, Ather H.; Aydede, Yigit – Canadian Journal 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 wage in 2005. When demographic controls were applied, they ranked ninth on the salary scale. When we compared the wages in 15…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics Education, Education Work Relationship, Wages