Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis

This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis.If employers use education as a signal in the hiring process, they will rely more on education when less is otherwise known about applicants.We nd that employers are more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude that education is used as a signal in the hiring process.

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Year of publication:	2001
Authors:	van Ours, Jan ; Albrecht, J.W.
Institutions:	Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research
Subject:	education \| labour demand

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Discussion Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series CentER Discussion Paper Number 2001-49
Classification:	I20 - Education. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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