Evidence on the Relationship between Firm-Based Screening and the Returns to Education

Autor/inn/en	Brown, Sarah; Sessions, John G.
Titel	Evidence on the Relationship between Firm-Based Screening and the Returns to Education
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 25 (2006) 5, S.498-509 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2005.05.007
Schlagwörter	Role of Education; Screening Tests; Employer Employee Relationship; Foreign Countries; Attitude Measures; Personnel Evaluation; Test Bias; Outcomes of Education; Occupational Surveys; Inhibition; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsauftrag; Screening-Verfahren; Ausland; Personalbeurteilung; Testkritik; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Berufsanalyse; Hemmung; Großbritannien
Abstract	We explore the relationship between the signalling role of education and direct screening measures adopted by employers using a matched employee-employer 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. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10