Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272434 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15807
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
Job Market Signaling
human capital
returns to education
employer learning
JEL: 
E24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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