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Information in the Labour MarketJob-Worker Matching and Its Implications for Education in Ontario\nAuthor(s): James Davies, Glenn MacDonald\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802034038, 978-0802034038\nSynopsis\nThis study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level. The schools are viewed as helping students discover jobs matched to their abilities, and policy prescriptions are offered from that standpoint.\n\n After examining earlier economic models of education seeing it in terms of human capital and signalling the authors analyse their informational model. In the light of the three theories of education, they then proceed to examine the appropriate role of government in the education market, and offer their policy recommendations. In addition, trends in the structure of education over the .