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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments … towards lower education. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, globalization has an ambiguous effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267052
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Public Education Spending in a Globalized World: Is there a Shift in Priorities Across Educational Stages?
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2011
This paper studies the effect of globalization on public expenditures allocated to different stages of education. First …, we derive theoretically that globalization’s influence on education expenditures depends on the type of government. For … globalization on public education spending cannot be unambiguously predicted. In the second part of the paper, we empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319012
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Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between globalization and the composition of public education expenditures. The … theoretical model is embedded in a median voter setting and is based on the assumption that globalization leads to lower tax … globalization induces a shift from primary to tertiary education expenditures, which is backed up by empirical evidence from dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673504
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Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between globalization and the composition of public education expenditures. The … theoretical model is embedded in a median voter setting and is based on the assumption that globalization leads to lower tax … globalization induces a shift from primary to tertiary education expenditures, which is backed up by empirical evidence from dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685497
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Globalization, Redistribution, and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments … towards lower education. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, globalization has an ambiguous effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148296
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School Vouchers in Practice: Competition Won't Hurt You!
Sandström, F. Mikael; Bergström, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002
An important issue in the debate on voucher systems and school choice is what effects competition from independent schools will have on public schools. Sweden has made a radical reform of its system for financing schools. Independent and public schools operate on close to equal terms under a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419504
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School Vouchers in Practice: Competition Won't Hurt You!
Sandström, F. Mikael; Bergström, Fredrik - 2002
An important issue in the debate on voucher systems and school choice is what effects competition from independent schools will have on public schools. Sweden has made a radical reform of its system for financing schools. Independent and public schools operate on close to equal terms under a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320160
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Government Expenditures on Education, Fertility Rate, and Child Schooling
Dessy, Sylvain E. - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1998
In many developing countries, a modern sector coexists with a traditional, informal, sector often intensive in child labor. In such a setting, when parents care about both the number and wellbeing of offsping, but also attach an economic value to children, there is a positive association between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796008
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Globalization and public administration: a complex relationship
Angelini, Elisabetta Croci - Dipartimento di Studi Sullo Sviluppo Economico (DISSE), … - 2010
The paper examines the relationship between globalization and public administration through economic theory principles … and an example. Starting from the consideration of early concerns about globalization, it argues that although the size of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465830
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The Economics of Private Tutoring
Dessy, Sylvain E.; St-Amour, Pascal; Vencatachellum, … - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1998
This paper develops a two-sector, general equilibrium, overlapping generations model to study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of private tutoring, when education is publicly provided. Young agents have heterogeneous endowments of human capital, which they can augment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696405