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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation

Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2010

In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...

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A Note on Brain Gain and Brain Drain: Permanent Migration and Education Policy

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - CESifo - 2010

country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … long as the permanent migration probability is not too large, this positive effect causes both aggregate and per …

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Voting on Labour-Market Integration and Education Policy when Citizens Differ in Mobility and Ability

Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2009

We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...

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Competition for the International Pool of Talent: Education Policy and Student Mobility

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - CESifo - 2011

This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In equilibrium, one country offers high educational quality for high tuition fees, while the other country provides a low quality and charges low fees. The quality in the high quality...

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Voting on Public Pensions With Hand and Feet: How Young Migrants Try to Escape From Gerontocracy

Haupt, Alexander; Peters, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2001

, nevertheless, is restricted by migration of the young generations. This connection between political voting on intergenerational … case in which the young generations‘ migration decision takes its effect on future pensions into account (strategic … migration) and the case in which it only reflects differentials in labor income (myopic migration). The paper also pays …

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