signals that is concave, a feature that earlier studies used to dismiss educational signaling. Using a synthetic panel data … the literature by establishing the possibility of increasing returns to education over part of a workers life within the … signaling framework theoretically and empirically. …

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. …

The paper enriches a standard signaling model of education with issues of social distance defined over educational … growing average level of schooling. As education rises, signals get noisy and potentially harmful for what concerns firms … these dynamics are in line with recent trends and other stylized facts about education. …

This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become … effect of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the long-term but a … discouraging effect on their intentions in the short-term. These results support the conjecture that entrepreneurship education …

-best policy would be to subsidize education. However, there is little chance for a dual labor market, as is common in many …

it should instead rely on transfers for redistributing income ex post. To this end, we develop a model of education in … a skilled worker depends on individual effort in education and on public resources, but educational risk still causes … of education by public funding of the educational sector has a significant effect and that this increases efficiency in …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …

optimal levels of effort to all students. Because this scheme employs only ordinal information, our scheme allows education … that education authorities can employ our scheme as a means of providing incentives for educators while employing a …