Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18723 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1360
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites and to investigate the nature of the links between recruitment of elites and economic growth. The main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should result in the best being chosen, we show that meritocratic recruitment actually leads to class stratification and autorecruitment. We analyze the consequences of stratification resulting from meritocratic selection for the development of a country, and show that these consequences are dependent upon the type of technological changes occurring in the country.
Subjects: 
economic growth
education
elites
meritocracy
recruitment
social mobility
stratification
JEL: 
O15
O40
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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