TY - JOUR
T1 - A Note on Human Capital v. Screening
T2 - Evidence from Sportometrics
AU - Mixon, Franklin G.
AU - Ressler, Rand W.
AU - Wilder, Randall B.
N1 - 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.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0011660339
SN - 0197-4254
VL - 21
JO - Atlantic Economic Journal
JF - Atlantic Economic Journal
ER -