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Educational Streaming, Occupational Choice, and the Distribution of Wages

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This paper studies how the structure and quality of education influence occupational choices and the distribution of wages. Structure refers to the age at which children are streamed into specialized programs as well as the proportion of students placed in each stream. The Roy (1951) model of occupational choice is extended to incorporate the streaming of students into different programs based on academic ability prior to the point at which they self-select into an occupation. Streaming dates and the relative size of each stream have important implications for sectoral selection and the distribution of wages.

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  • Kelly Bedard, 1997. "Educational Streaming, Occupational Choice, and the Distribution of Wages," LIS Working papers 158, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
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    1. Giorgio Brunello, 2004. "Stratified or Comprehensive? Some Economic Considerations on the design of secondary education," ifo DICE Report, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 2(04), pages 07-10, June.
    2. repec:ces:ifodic:v:2:y:2004:i:4:p:14567713 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Bedard, Kelly & Ferrall, Christopher, 2003. "Wage and test score dispersion: some international evidence," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 31-43, February.

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