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| Author: | Chatterji, M. Seaman, P. T. Singell, L. D. Jr. |
| Title: | A test of the signalling hypothesis |
| Journal: | Oxford Economic Papers
2003 : APR, VOL. 55:2, p. 191-215 |
| Index terms: | Human capital Education Skilled workers Productivity |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Education may enhance earnings either because of human capital increases or by signalling unobservable worker attributs. The theoretical model of this study provides a direct sinal measure as the difference between required and necessary qualifications, forming the basis for an ordered-probit model of discrete differences between required and necessary qualifications that depend on firm, job, and worker attributes. Estimates support the model's preductions, providing a continuous, predicted signal measure for second stage, gender-specific return to a signal and indicate a downward bias in the return to education from excluding the signal measure. |
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