The Optimal Timing of School Tracking

Giorgio Brunello, Massimo Giannini () and Kenn Ariga ()
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Massimo Giannini: University of Molise
Kenn Ariga: Kyoto University

No 995, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the outcome of the trade off between the advantages of specialization, which call for early tracking, and the costs of early selection, which lead to later tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the (exogenous) rate of technical progress affect the optimal tracking time as well as the efficient allocation of students to general and vocational tracks.

Keywords: Germany; secondary schools; tracking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 H73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004-01
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Published in: L. Woessmann and P. Petersen (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT 2007, 129-156

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