Testing the Sorting Model of Education
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NBER Working Paper No. 1420
Issued in August 1984
NBER Program(s): LS
Proprietary data for production workeis is analyzed to determine which aspects of productivity are affected by secondary schooling. The measures of productivity explored are: propensity to quit and be absent, phisical oatput per hour, and ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of earnings for semi-skilled production workers.
Published: (Published as "A Sorting-Cum-Learning Model of Education"), JPE, Vol. 91,no. 3 (1983): 420-442.
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