Returns To Schooling: Skills Accumulation Or Information Revelation?
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- Ssekabira Ntege & Steven F. Koch, 2008. "Returns to Schooling: Skills Accumulation or Information Revelation?," Working Papers 087, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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Keywords
Information asymmetry; signalling; screening; returns education;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2008-07-05 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-EDU-2008-07-05 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2008-07-05 (Labour Economics)
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