between recruitment and training of elites and economic development. We show that there was a key shift at the turn of the … meritocracy became the basis for recruitment of elites. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best being chosen, we … show that meritocratic recruitment leads to class stratification and auto-recruitment. We analyze whether stratification …

elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best … being chosen, we show that meritocratic recruitment actually leads to class stratification and autorecruitment. We analyze … the consequences of stratification resulting from meritocratic selection for the development of a country, and show that …

The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The … present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000–04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …