A Note on Human Capital v. Screening: Evidence from Sportometrics

Franklin G. Mixon, Rand W. Ressler, Randall B. Wilder

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Abstract

Much work has been written on the returns to heterogeneous labor inputs in the market, especially from a human capital perspective. Important among these is Becker |Human Capital, 1975~ and Wise |AER, 1975~. They point out that individuals make investments in themselves through educational attainment and post-school job investments in order to recoup greater nominal returns in the labor market. Challenges to the human capital notion have come from Lazear |AER, 1977~ and Spence |QJE, 1973~ in the form of screening, where education is a signal to employers to select the more talented for jobs which involve considerable on-the-job training.



Original languageAmerican English
JournalAtlantic Economic Journal
Volume21
StatePublished - 1993

Disciplines

  • Finance and Financial Management
  • Business

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