Social prestige of occupations and substitutability of university courses in France during the 20th century

Prestige social des professions et substituabilité des filières universitaires en France au XXème siècle

Magali Jaoul-Grammare

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Abstract: The social prestige associated to a profession, as well as the expected wage, is an important factor in the study choice. This paper aims at showing that two thematically different orientations in higher education can reveal substitutability as soon as they are associated to prestigious professions. The originality of our approach is to use cliometric tools to meet a microeconomic problem. Our results, applied to the French case, highlight a substitution relationship between legal and medical studies where the evolution of medical studies seems to be the starting point.

Keywords: causality; study choice; glutting; higher education; social prestige; Substituability; Causalité; choix d'études; engorgement; enseignement supérieur; prestige social; substituabilité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-08
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Published in Economies et Sociétés. Série AF, Histoire Economique Quantitative, 2014, 49, pp.1309-1333

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