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Formal education versus learning-by-doing: On the labor market efficiency of educational choices

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  • Frédéric Gavrel

    (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Isabelle Lebon

    (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Thérèse Rebière

    (LIRSA - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en sciences de l'action - Cnam - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [Cnam], IZA Bonn)

Abstract

Educational choices are studied in a two-sectors search-and-matching model where qualifications are required for access to good jobs. Qualifications can be acquired either before entering the labor market through formal education , or through learning-by-doing in a low-skill job. Spontaneously, the economy creates too many high-skill jobs and accordingly individuals devote too much effort to formal education. However, educational effort alone becomes insufficient when the rate of creation of these high-skill jobs is reduced to its optimal level. In conclusion , we show that an efficient policy would be to subsidize both education and low-skill firms whose workers quit when obtaining a job in the high-skill sector, both elements financed by a tax on high-skill firms.

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  • Frédéric Gavrel & Isabelle Lebon & Thérèse Rebière, 2016. "Formal education versus learning-by-doing: On the labor market efficiency of educational choices," Post-Print halshs-01377598, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01377598
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2016.01.006
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    1. Beladi, Hamid & Sinha, Chaitali & Kar, Saibal, 2016. "To educate or not to educate: Impact of public policies in developing countries," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 94-101.
    2. Alecxandrina Deaconu & Elena Mădălina Dedu & Ramona Ștefania Igreț & Cătălina Radu, 2018. "The Use of Information and Communications Technology in Vocational Education and Training—Premise of Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-18, May.
    3. Cafferata, Alessia & Radi, Davide & Ravasi, Daniele, 2025. "Informal networks and education choice: A dynamic macro model," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy

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