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[signaling_theory]

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Labour & employmentRCT
Credential Signal Inefficiency
Adding Canadian references, official degree accreditation, or permanent resident status to foreign-experienced resumes generated point estimates near zero with no statistically significant increase in callback rates.
Labour & employmentRCT
Reference Letter Invalidation by Networks
Acquiring experimentally induced work experience reduced the probability of submitting a reference letter by 7.9 percentage points (p > 0.10) and decreased the frequency of reference letter submissions by 0.381 times, demonstrating that formal signaling via reference letters did not drive the observed wage gains.