Autori
Benegas, Maurício
Corrêa, Márcio Veras

Titolo
(Un)equal Educational Opportunities and the Labor Market: A Theoretical Analysis
Periodico
Labour
Anno: 2017 - Volume: 31 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 433 - Pagina finale: 456

This paper intends to study the effects of public school quality offer on the labor market performance. With this objective in mind, we build a matching model for the labor market in two sectors: schooled and non-schooled. The skilled segment of the economy is endogenous and composed of a continuum of workers who differ in the quality of the school attended. We show that there is a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of education and that a reduction in schooling costs increases school enrollment rates. However, it adversely reduces the job creation dynamics in the skilled sector, due to the Composition Effect. We also verify that a first order improvement in school quality distribution may generate an increase in the schooling rate and a greater job vacancy creation in the skilled sector with no negative effects on the unskilled sector.



SICI: 1121-7081(2017)31:4<433:(EOATL>2.0.ZU;2-S

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