The Importance of Signalling in Job Placement and Promotion

In a setting where training or promotion opportunity depend on expected initial ability, the effects of signalling initial skills on wages may last well beyond the period when knowledge of a workers' skill set is fully known. This paper proposes extending recent tests for signalling to better accommodate training differences by using firm-level characteristics and applying these tests to a large sample of MBA and law graduates from different ranked schools.

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Year of publication:	2006-01-05
Authors:	Oreopoulos, Philip ; Heisz, Andrew
Institutions:	Statistics Canada, Government of Canada
Subject:	Adult education and training \| Education \| training and learning \| Job training and educational attainment \| Labour \| Work transitions and life stages \| Workplace organization \| innovation \| performance

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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