How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …

-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However …

’s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock … hypotheses are derived. The findings suggest that the signaling model may indeed predict the observed changes in the schooling …

In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary … of the signaling value of the GED for marginal passers. We apply the model to the national 1997 passing standard increase … hike, we find no evidence of a positive GED signaling effect on earnings. However, we find some evidence which suggest that …

This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their …

not have a positive signaling benefit. Analysis of the data from the January 1988-2000 Displaced Workers Supplements to …

opportunity costs as the basis for the inverse trade-conflict relationship, thus implying that one need not rely on signaling. …

The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is shown that a company when …