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high school graduates but not for college graduates, and conclude that high levels of schooling reveal true productivity …. We show that their choice of start date – based on first-observed school exit and often triggered by school vacations … dates tied to a more systematic definition of school exit, we find that employer learning is equally evident for high school …
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Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...
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This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on \textit{perceived} signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or...
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This paper explores students' expectations about the returns to completing higher education and provides first evidence on perceived signaling and human capital effects. We elicit counterfactual labor market expectations for the hypothetical scenarios of leaving university with or without a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293817
's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor …
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local variation in compulsory schooling laws across multiple cohorts in Norway. Our preferred estimates indicate that the …
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local variation in compulsory schooling laws across multiple cohorts in Norway. Our preferred estimates indicate that the …
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's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321297
Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193438