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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
signals that is concave, a feature that earlier studies used to dismiss educational signaling. Using a synthetic panel data … signaling framework theoretically and empirically. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261976
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A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980?s
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
?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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262368
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In Vino Veritas: The Economics of Drinking
Heufer, Jan - 2009
context. There is a tradeoff between the efficiency gains due to the signaling effect and the loss of productivity associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271394
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Who should pay for certification?
Stahl, Konrad O.; Strausz, Roland - 2011
-induced certification acts as an inspection device, seller-induced certification as a signalling device. Seller-induced certification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274805
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Who should pay for certification?
Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011
-induced certification acts as an inspection device, seller-induced certification as a signalling device. Seller-induced certification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306003
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Who Should Pay for Certification?
Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2010
-induced certification acts as an inspection device, whence seller-induced certification acts as a signalling device. Seller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334064
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Employee stock options
Børsum, Øystein - 2010
An entrepreneur with information about firm quality seeks financing from an uninformed investor in order to pay a worker. I show that if the worker, too, knows the true quality of the firm, then certain long term wage agreements can credibly signal firm quality. Such wage agreements have a low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285589
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Koulutus työmarkkinasignaalina
Leino, Topias - 2008
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signalling and on education as a job market … signal. Possible economic implications of educational job market signalling to an individual and the society are represented … based on existing theories. The paper also reviews central methods in empirical testing of the signalling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273007
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Das französische Hochschulsystem als "Sortiereinrichtung" für Humankapital
Otte, Thomas - 2005
Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird das französische Bildungssystem daraufhin untersucht, inwiefern es arbeitgeberseitiges Screening bei der Einstellung von Führungsnachwuchskräften begünstigt. Die Analyse kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Differenziertheit der Hochschullandschaft sowie die in ihr...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297238
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Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2004
not have a positive signaling benefit. Analysis of the data from the January 1988-2000 Displaced Workers Supplements to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276359