Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20230 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 995
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the outcome of the trade off between the advantages of specialization, which call for early tracking, and the costs of early selection, which lead to later tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the (exogenous) rate of technical progress affect the optimal tracking time as well as the efficient allocation of students to general and vocational tracks.
Subjects: 
tracking
secondary schools
Germany
JEL: 
H73
H52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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