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| Title: | | Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching  |
| Authors: | | Schwager, Robert |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 08-070 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | education grading standards assignment social mobility grading standards assignment social mobility |
| JEL: | | I21 J24 C78 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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