A Procedure for Testing the Signalling Hypothesis

James Albrecht

No 29, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper develops a procedure for testing the signaling hypothesis as advanced by Spence, et. al. The approach used is to examine directly the question of whether employers use education for purely informational purposes in their hiring decisions. An application of the method to a recruitment by the Swedish auto manufacturer Volvo is presented.

Keywords: Employers; Education; Recruitment; Manufacturing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 I20 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 1980-07
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.ifn.se/wfiles/wp/wp029.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: A procedure for testing the signalling hypothesis (1981)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:0029

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Box 55665, SE-102 15 Stockholm, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Elisabeth Gustafsson ().