Using employer hiring behavior to test the educational signaling hypothesis

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 361-372

  Albrecht, James W ^a   Van Ours, Jan C ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Recruitment; Signaling

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RECRUITMENT;

EID: 33750606525     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: 14679442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2006.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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