Credentials, Signals, and Screens: Explaining the Relationship Between Schooling and Job Assignment

By D. Bills. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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First-Generation College Students (2004, background): “One useful theoretical perspective for understanding the potential effects of first-generation student status on the experience and outcomes of college is through the related lenses of cultural and social capital (Bills, 2000; Bourdieu, 1986; Coleman, 1988).”
Ivies, extracurriculars, and exclusion: Elite employers’ use of educational credentials (2011, background): “In line with human capital, screening, and signaling accounts of the role of educational credentials in hiring (see Bills, 2003 for review), participants overwhelmingly believed the prestige of one’s educational credentials was an indicator of their underlying intelligence.”
Funds of knowledge for the poor and forms of capital for the rich? A capital approach to examining funds of knowledge (2011, background): “Other researchers (Bills, 2003) argue that the theory of cultural capital is less clear about whether educational institutions also impart habitus or merely reward those students who”
Unraveling the myth of meritocracy within the context of US higher education (2011, background): “Although there may be other theories to explain the relationship between educational credentials and socioeconomic attainment ( Bills 2003 ), the more important point to bear in mind is that in a meritocracy, credentials may not be an equitable signifier of achievement.”
Hiring as Cultural Matching (2012, background): “But given that these organizations require total work devotion (Blair-Loy 2003), selecting new hires based on extensive devotion to leisure could backfire in the longterm by resulting in a mismatch with the actual demands of the job.”
Skill and education effects on earnings in 18 Countries: The role of national educational institutions (2011, background): “…field has compared different theories and comes to different conclusions regarding the explanatory power of different explanatory mechanisms (e.g. Bills, 2003; Hage et al., 1988; Chevalier et al., 2004; Groot and Oosterbeek, 1994; Jaeger and Page, 1996; Layard and Psacharopoulos, 1974; Weiss,…”
Examining the Effects of High School Contexts on Postsecondary Enrollment (2010, background): “Cultural capital represents a range of attributes, such as language skills, cultural knowledge, and other mannerisms that are typically acquired from one’s parents, which define and situate one within a particular class status ( Bills 2003; Bourdieu 1986).”
The role of education in intergenerational social mobility: Problems from empirical research in sociology and some theoretical pointers from economics (2014, background): “…whose primary concern is with the relationship between education and labour market outcomes (see e.g. Berg and Kalleberg, 2001 and for later reviews Bills, 2003; Van de Werfhorst, 2011), but among those whose concerns centre on social mobility in intergenerational perspective, interest has been…”
Open badges for education: what are the implications at the intersection of open systems and badging? (2014, background): “For example, employers view a college degree as abstract information about what a potential job applicant knows and can do, but the degree cannot communicate with certainty the specific skills a person has (Arkes 1999; Bills 2003).”