Labor Market Signaling with Overconfident Workers N.B.: This paper is replaced by Nr 11.07 "Labor Market Signaling and Self-Confidence: Wage Compression and the Gender Pay Gap" (December 2011)
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Keywords
signaling; labor market; behavioral biases; wages; education;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- 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
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2010-10-16 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-LAB-2010-10-16 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-NEU-2010-10-16 (Neuroeconomics)
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