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Analyse économique des politiques éducatives : l'Augmentation de la scolarisation en France de 1982 à 1993

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  • Thierry Magnac
  • David Thesmar

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In this paper, we analyze the increase in education levels of young generations in France between 1980 and 1993. We insist on three factors that could have explained this increase: i) increasing returns to education in the labour market including its protective role against unemployment; ii) decreasing costs, either objective or subjective, of education that families or students have to pay; iii) decreasing 'selectivity' of the education authorities. Using data from a survey on educational histories and on employment and by estimating a structural model of educational choices, we show that the third factor bears the principal burden of the increase in the education level. We however cannot distinguish in the influence of this factor what are the respective roles of opening new educational tracks, such as vocational tracks and, of rendering selection less severe by making repetitions less frequent.

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  • Thierry Magnac & David Thesmar, 2002. "Analyse économique des politiques éducatives : l'Augmentation de la scolarisation en France de 1982 à 1993," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 65, pages 1-33.
    • Handle: RePEc:adr:anecst:y:2002:i:65:p:1-33
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    1. Verdugo, Gregory, 2014. "The great compression of the French wage structure, 1969–2008," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(C), pages 131-144.
    2. Pierre Dubois & Alain de Janvry & Elisabeth Sadoulet, 2012. "Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Mexico," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 30(3), pages 555-589.
    3. Catherine Béduwé & Jean-François Giret, 2011. "Mismatch of vocational graduates : what penalty on French labour market," Post-Print halshs-00738007, HAL.

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