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 find that employers are … that education is used as a signal in the hiring process. …

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …

estimated returns to ability and education – of employer learning about unobserved worker?s productivity and statistical … hypothesis that British employers have limited information about their workers, make inferences based on their education levels …

issues using instrumental variables estimation and instruments based on the lagged expansion of the Italian higher education …