TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Albrecht, James
AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
        TI  - Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis
        PY  - 2001/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 399
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp399
        AB  - This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis. If employers use education as a signal in the hiring process, they will rely more on education when less is otherwise known about applicants. We find that employers are more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude that education is used as a signal in the hiring process.
        KW  - Recruitment
KW  - signaling
        ER  -