Education and Signaling: Evidence from a highly competitive labor market

題名:
Education and Signaling: Evidence from a highly competitive labor market
作者:
- Heywood, John S. Dept. of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Wei, Xiangdong Lingnan University and Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
出版資料:
Education Economics, 12(1), 1-16, 2004
出版者:
Routledge
出版年份:
2004
教育主題:
- P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  - PD 經濟與教育
關鍵字:
Educational Attainment Labor Market Foreign Countries Self Employment Outcomes of Education Gender Differences Employment
地區:
- Hong Kong
時期:
- 1997.7 onwards
程度:
- 未指定或無法歸類
摘要:
This paper directly tests for differences in returns to education between the employed and self-employed in Hong Kong. Using a step-function, we find significantly smaller returns for the self-employed, suggesting that in the highly competitive labor market of Hong Kong education plays a signaling role. This pattern persists for both genders, when accounting for self-selection into employment status and when accounting for self-employed professionals who signal.
[Copyright of Education Economics is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0964529042000193925]
語言:
- 英文
文件類型:
期刊論文
ISSN:
- 09645292
DOI:
- 10.1080/0964529042000193925
永久網址:
https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/4bab751d
建檔日期:
2010-09-08