This paper studies how the structure and quality of education influence occupational choices and the distribution of wages. Structure refers to the age at which children are streamed into specialized programs as well as the proportion of students placed in each stream. The Roy (1951) model of...

Under the educational sorting hypothesis, an environment in which some individuals are constrained from entering university will be characterized by increased pooling at the high school graduation level, as compared to an environment with greater university access. This results because some...