Recommended readings (Machine generated): Michael Spence (1973), 'Job Market Signaling', 87 (3), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 355-74 -- Boyan Jovanovic (1979), 'Job Matching and the Theory of Turnover', Journal of Political Economy, 87 (5), Part 1, October, 972-90 -- Eugene F. Fama (1980), 'Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm', Journal of Political Economy, 88 (2), April, 288-307 -- Michael Waldman (1984), 'Job Assignments, Signaling and Efficiency', Rand Journal of Economics, 15 (2), Summer, 255-67 -- Bruce C. Greenwald (1986), 'Adverse Selection in the Labour Market', Review of Economic Studies, 53 (3), July, 325-47 -- Bengt Holmstrom (1999), 'Managerial Incentive Problems: A Dynamic Perspective', Review of Economic Studies, 66 (1), January, 169-82 -- John G. Riley (1979), 'Testing the Educational Screening Hypothesis,' Journal of Political Economy, 87 (5), Part 2: Education and Income, October, S227-S252 -- Kevin Lang and David Kropp (1986), 'Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 101 (3), August, 609-24 -- Thomas Hungerford and Gary Solon (1987), 'Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education', Review of Economics and Statistics, 69 (1), February, 175-7 -- Kelly Bedard (2001),'Human Capital versus Signaling Models: University Access and High School Dropouts', Journal of Political Economy, 109 (4), 749-75 -- Fabian Lange (2007), 'The Speed of Employer Learning', Journal of Labor Economics, 25 (1), 1-35 -- Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer and Aurel Hizmo (2010), 'Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability,' American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2 (4), October, 76-104 -- Milton Harris and Bengt Holmstrom (1982), 'A Theory of Wage Dynamics', Review of Economic Studies, 49 (3), July, 315-33 -- Robert Gibbons and Michael Waldman (1999), 'A Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114 (4), November, 1321-358 -- Jaime Ortega (2001), 'Job Rotation as a Learning Mechanism', Management Science, 47 (10), October, 1361-70 -- Edward P. Lazear (2004), 'The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline', Journal of Political Economy, 112 (1) Part 2, S141-S163 -- Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy (1992), 'Optimal Incentive Contracts in the Presence of Career Concerns: Theory and Evidence', Journal of Political Economy, 100 (3), June, 468-505 -- Curtis J. Simon and John T. Warner (1992), 'Matchmaker, Matchmaker: The Effect of Old Boy Networks on Job Match Quality, Earnings and Tenure', Journal of Labor Economics, 10 (3), July, 306-30 -- Henry S. Farber and Robert Gibbons (1996), 'Learning and Wage Dynamics', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111 (4), November, 1007-47
