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Titre : | Evidence on the relationship between firm-based screening and the returns to education (2006) |
Auteurs : | Sarah Brown ; John G. Sessions |
Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
Dans : | Economics of Education Review (Vol. 25, n° 5, October 2006) |
Article en page(s) : | pp. 498-509 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ ECONOMIE DE L'EDUCATION ; THEORIE DU CAPITAL HUMAIN ; RENDEMENT DE L'EDUCATION ; CRITERE D'EMBAUCHE ; ROYAUME UNI |
RĂ©sumĂ© : | We explore the relationship between the signalling role of education and direct screening measures adopted by employers using a matched employeeâemployer data set drawn from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey for Great Britain. We identify which firms use personality/attitude and/or performance/competency tests during the hiring process and, by combining this and other firm level information with employee level characteristics, investigate whether such tests affect the signalling role of education. Our results suggest that hiring tests inhibit the signalling role of education, and that a failure to control for such tests may bias estimates of the returns to education. |
Document Céreq : | Non |
En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2005.05.007 |