Bester, Helmut; Lang, Matthias; Li, Jianpei - 2018
In Spence’s (1973) signaling by education model and in many of its extensions, firms can only infer workers …’ productivities. We characterize the trade–offs between signaling by workers and costly information acquisition by firms. Information … workers have low productivity. Our analysis applies also to other signaling problems, e.g. the financial structure of firms …