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Using employer hiring behavior to test the educational signaling hypothesis

Albrecht, James W.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2001

This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis. If employers use education as a signal in the hiring process, they will rely more on education when less is otherwise known about applicants. We find that employers are more likely to lower educational standards when an...

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Do enclaves matter in immigrant adjustment?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

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Hiring standards and market clearing

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002

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Leadership skills and wages

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002

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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

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Do Men Really Have Greater Socio-Emotional Skills Than Women? : Evidence from Tanzanian Youth

Cassidy, Rachel; Das, Smita; Delavallade, Clara; … - 2024

Individuals' socio-emotional skills (SES), and their perceptions of their skill levels, matter for labor market …-reported measures. In contrast, gender gaps in behavioral measures are only observed for a few skills, and are far smaller in magnitude …. The paper provides suggestive evidence that this pattern reflects men's overestimation of their own skills, rather than …

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Trade liberalization and labor monopsony : evidence from Chinese firms

Kondo, Illenin; Li, Yao; Qian, Wei - 2024

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Job displacement, remarriage, and marital sorting

Foerster, Hanno; Obermeier, Tim; Schulz, Bastian - 2024

simulating how the effect of rising individual-level inequality on between-household inequality is shaped by marital sorting. …

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Job displacement, remarriage, and marital sorting

Foerster, Hanno; Obermeier, Tim; Schulz, Bastian - 2024

simulating how the effect of rising individual-level inequality on between-household inequality is shaped by marital sorting. …

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Skills' substitutability and technological progress : US states 1950 - 1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2003

In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...

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