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Title: Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates are Defined
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Light, Audrey L. McGee, Andrew Dunstan |
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Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates are Defined Labour Economics 32 (January 2015): 57-66. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537114001456 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Educational Attainment; Learning Hypothesis; Methods/Methodology; Transition, School to Work; Work Experience We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how we define the career start date and, in turn, measure cumulative work experience. Arcidiacono et al. (2010) find evidence of employer learning for high school graduates but not for college graduates, and conclude that high levels of schooling reveal true productivity. We show that their choice of start date--based on nonenrollment at survey interview dates and often triggered by school vacation--systematically overstates experience and biases learning estimates towards zero for college-educated workers. Using career start dates tied to a more systematic definition of school exit, we find that employer learning is equally evident for high school and college graduates. |
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Light, Audrey L. and Andrew Dunstan McGee. "Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates are Defined." Labour Economics 32 (January 2015): 57-66.
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