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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching
Schwager, Robert - 2008
ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce the aggregate wage of the lower class workers because employers use … social origin as a signal for productivity if grades are less than fully informative. Moreover, the high-ability students … students from the lower classes …
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Students' social origins and targeted grading
Tampieri, Alessandro - In: The B.E. journal of theoretical economics 20 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20
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Honest grading, grade inflation and reputation
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2012
When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634253
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Signalling and Caste Mimicry in Urban India : Experimental Evidence – Audience Effects
Mamidi, Pavan K. - 2014
who discriminate. Caste detection does not always involve signalling to a solitary receiver. Caste signalling situations … for both signalling of truth and passing off by signallers. If potential victims of caste-based discrimination wish to …
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Grade inflation, social background, and labour market matching
Schwager, Robert - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 82 (2012) 1, pp. 56-66
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Grade inflation, social background, and labour market matching
Schwager, Robert (contributor) - 2008
ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce the aggregate wage of the lower class workers because employers use … social origin as a signal for productivity if grades are less than fully informative. Moreover, the high-ability students … students from the lower classes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751787
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Honest grading, grade inflation and reputation
Ehlers, Tim; Schwager, Robert - 2012
When grades lose their informative value because the percentage of students receiving the best grade rises without any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311695
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The economics of higher education in Germany : salary expectations, signaling, and social mobility
Maihaus, Michael - 2014 - 1., Aufl
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Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation : a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Siedler, Thomas; Tobback, Ilse - 2019
Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job...
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What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?
Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; Couck, … - 2019
outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the observed effects. In the current study, we go beyond measuring the effect …
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