The Importance of Signalling in Job Placement and Promotion

Philip Oreopoulos and Andrew Heisz

Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch

Abstract:

In a setting where training or promotion opportunity depend on expected initial ability, the effects of signalling initial skills on wages may last well beyond the period when knowledge of a workers' skill set is fully known. This paper proposes extending recent tests for signalling to better accommodate training differences by using firm-level characteristics and applying these tests to a large sample of MBA and law graduates from different ranked schools.

Keywords: Adult education and training; Education; training and learning; Job training and educational attainment; Labour; Work transitions and life stages; Workplace organization; innovation; performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01-05
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