{"id":34829,"date":"2016-05-18T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34829"},"modified":"2017-07-14T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T14:12:11","slug":"human-capital-and-signaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/18\/human-capital-and-signaling\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Capital and Signaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4AIgG6I-JRw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 7 Apr 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wages in America differ greatly among workers. Why is that? One reason includes differences in human capital \u2014 tools of the mind. Education is one of the biggest investments people make to increase their human capital. Which college majors offer the greatest returns? And are all returns on education due to human capital? A college degree can \u201csignal\u201d other factors as well, and we discuss what is commonly known as the \u201csheepskin effect.\u201d In this video, we also discuss how globalization has affected wages in the U.S. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 7 Apr 2015 Wages in America differ greatly among workers. Why is that? One reason includes differences in human capital \u2014 tools of the mind. Education is one of the biggest investments people make to increase their human capital. Which college majors offer the greatest returns? And are all returns on education due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,79],"tags":[95,1026,1143,764],"class_list":["post-34829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","tag-jobs","tag-microeconomics","tag-principlesofeconomics","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-93L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34830,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34829\/revisions\/34830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}