On the efficiency costs of de-tracking secondary schools
During the postwar period, many countries have de-tracked their secondary schools, based on the view that early tracking was unfair. What are the efficiency costs, if any, of de-tracking schools? To answer this question, we develop a two skills - two jobs model with a frictional labour market, where new school graduates need to actively search for their best match. We compute optimal tracking length and the output gain/loss associated to the gap between actual and optimal tracking length. Using a sample of 18 countries, we find that: a) actual tracking length is often longer than optimal, which might call for some efficient de-tracking; b) the output loss of having a tracking length longer or shorter than optimal is sizeable, and close to 2 percent of total net output.
Year of publication: |
2006
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Authors: | Ariga, Kenn ; Brunello, Giorgio ; Iwahashi, Roki ; Rocco, Lorenzo |
Publisher: |
Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
Saved in:
freely available
Series: | IZA Discussion Papers ; 2534 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 54158118X [GVK] hdl:10419/33961 [Handle] |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267924
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