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and 30% to education signaling workers' ability …
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effects and small changes in the electoral incentives may generate large changes in turnout due to signaling effects. (iv …) Signaling incentives increase the sensitivity of turnout to voting incentives in communities with low opportunity cost of social …
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information. The absence of the signaling effect seems related to the perception of managers’ intentions, a mitigating but … evidence for the hypothesized signaling effect. Having an informed manager set the incentive does not change employees’ be …
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We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only … unobserved by the government, but also by prospective employers. Signaling in both one and two dimensions is considered, where in … redistributing income and affecting signalling incentives is analyzed, as well as extended tax systems that combine income taxation …
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For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...
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This paper examines the labor-market returns to a new form of postsecondary vocational education, vocational master’s degrees. We use individual fixed effects models on the matched sample of students and non-students from Finland to capture any time-invariant differences across individuals....
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This paper provides novel evidence on the labor-market returns to for-profit postsecondary school and community college attendance using a two-step model to avoid recent concerns with single-stage fixed effects methods. Specifically, we link administrative records on for-profit school and...
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the...
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This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...
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