Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Arbeitspapier

A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce the aggregate wage of the lower class workers because employers use social origin as a signal for productivity if grades are less than fully informative. Moreover, the high-ability students from the higher class may benefit from grade inflation since this shields them from the competition on the part of able students from the lower classes.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 08-070

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
• Thema: education ; grading ; standards ; assignment ; social mobility ; grading ; standards ; assignment ; social mobility ; Bildungsabschluss ; Informationswert ; Signalling ; Arbeitsnachfrage ; Qualifikation ; Arbeitsangebot ; Matching ; Lohnstruktur ; Soziale Schicht ; Soziale Mobilität ; Bildungspolitik ; Spieltheorie ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schwager, Robert
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24766
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ