This paper investigates whether employers use university prestige as a signal of workers' unobservable productivity. Our test is based on employer learning-statistical discrimination models which suggest that if employers use university reputation to predict a worker's unobservable quality,...

This paper studies the effects of attending a private high school, the university ranking and the employer learning on wages. The empirical strategy is based on the Mincer-type wage regressions. The analysis was carried out using individual-level data from Chile. I find a large and significant...