Approaches to Learn about Employer Learning

Mahmut Ablay and Fabian Lange
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Mahmut Ablay: McGill University

No 15807, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The empirical literature on employer learning assumes that employers learn about unobserved ability differences across workers as they spend time in the labor market. This article describes testable implications that arise from this basic hypothesis and how they have been used to quantify the contribution of Job Market Signaling and human capital in measured returns to education. While the empirical basis is still thin, the results suggest that Signaling contributes at most about 25% to the observed returns to education.

Keywords: returns to education; human capital; Job Market Signaling; employer learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2022-12
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Published - published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023, 56 (2), 343-356

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