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Title: Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
Keywords: J41
I20
D8
ddc:330
returns to education
signaling
job matching
information
Arbeitsangebot
Arbeitsnachfrage
Matching
Bildungsertrag
Signalling
Zeitökonomik
Schätzung
Theorie
Vereinigte Staaten
Issue Date: 16-Oct-2013
Publisher: 
Description: This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid employees reveal their true productivities and overpaid employees are detected by the firm until every match is perfect. The model produces a time path of the returns to educational signals that is concave, a feature that earlier studies used to dismiss educational signaling. Using a synthetic panel data set from the Current Population Survey the theoretical result is then substantiated empirically. The paper contributes to the literature by establishing the possibility of increasing returns to education over part of a workers life within the signaling framework theoretically and empirically.
URI: http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20480
Other Identifiers: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20480
ppn:360946518
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