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Signaling in the Labor Market : New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021
not have a positive signaling benefit. Analysis of the data from the January 1988-2000 Displaced Workers Supplements to …
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Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments
Aryal, Gaurab - 2020
and 30% to education signaling workers' ability …
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Re-Employment Bonuses in a Signalling Model of Temporary Layoffs
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021
Temporary layoffs are an important feature of the United States labor market. If these employer-employee relationships exist because of valuable job-matches, unemployment among high-productivity laid-off workers may be optimal from societal perspective. However, because of asymmetric...
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Homosexuality's Signalling Function in Job Candidate Screening : Why Gay is (Mostly) Ok
Sterkens, Philippe; Dalle, Axana; Wuyts, Joey; Pauwels, Ines - 2022
To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we explore the perceptual drivers behind employers' evaluations of gay men and lesbian women. Therefore, we conduct an extensive vignette experiment among 404 genuine recruiters, for which we test...
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Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Prat, Julien - 2021
This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324859
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Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage
Bowmaker, Simon W. - 2009
Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young women as 'shotgun weddings' are no longer necessary. Empirical evidence from the United States lends support to that hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of...
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Implementing the Panel Event Study
Clarke, Damian - 2020
practical considerations for its estimation. We describe a Stata command eventdd that allows for simple estimation, inference …
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The Value Relevance of Top Executive Departures : Evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Kees; van Praag, Mirjam - 2021
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
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Delayed Graduation and Overeducation : A Test of the Human Capital Model versus the Screening Hypothesis
Aina, Carmen - 2012
The academic circles are devoting a growing interest to delayed graduation and overeducation, but none has analyzed the joint consequences of these two phenomena. Thus, this paper studies the link between graduation not within the minimum period and overeducation, and the effects of these...
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Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration : An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
Frederiksen, Anders - 2006
This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary … plausible estimates of the signalling effect. It is established that the positive ability signal of being displaced due to a … previously been ignored in the empirical analysis of the signalling hypothesis such as local labour market conditions, the sector …
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