Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Tuor, Simone N. - In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 63 (2010) 2, pp. 271-286
Reversing the original signaling model, this study explains how employers signal the non-observable quality of their workplace and thereby reduce labor shortages. Based on a company data set of 204 German firms, the authors find, as predicted by their theory, that the existence of a works...