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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education

Haussen, Tina; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2014

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country’s labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign students who can be expected to work abroad...

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Money Matters - Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2009

,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice … aware at any time that they were part of an experiment. The experiment shows that the voucher had a significant causal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181564

Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - CESifo - 2011

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing … untargeted voucher programs in promoting labor market outcomes through adult education. …

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The Private and Fiscal Returns to Schooling and the Effect of Public Policies on Private Incentives to Invest in Education: A General Framework and Some Results for the EU

Fuente, Angel De la; Jimeno, Juan F. - CESifo - 2005

This paper develops a comprehensive framework for the quantitative analysis of the private and fiscal returns to schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 member states of the European Union. For each of these...

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The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment

Lochner, Lance; Stinebrickner, Todd; Suleymanoglu, Utku - CESifo - 2013

Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...

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Student and Worker Mobility under University and Government Competition

Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - CESifo - 2011

We provide a normative analysis of endogenous student and worker mobility in the presence of diverging interests between universities and governments. Student mobility generates a university competition effect which induces them to overinvest in education, whereas worker mobility generates a...

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Government Ideology and Tuition Fee Policy: Evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013

In January 2005 the German Supreme Court permitted the state governments to charge tuition fees. By exploiting the natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that rightwing governments were active in introducing tuition...

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The Effects of Tuition Fees on Transition from High School to University in Germany

Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Wigger, Berthold U. - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies whether the introduction of tuition fees at public universities in some German states had a negative effect on enrollment, i.e., on the transition of high school graduates to public universities in Germany. In contrast to recent studies, we do not find a significant effect on...

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Private Investment in Higher Education: Comparing Alternative Funding Schemes

Eckwert, Bernhard; Zilcha, Itzhak - CESifo - 2008

This paper uses an overlapping generations framework to analyze the implications of different financing regimes in the education sector for human capital formation and economic welfare. Agents privately invest in education after they have received a noisy information signal about their...

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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - CESifo - 2015

Higher education is not just a signal of innate ability. At least a certain level of educational achievement (degree level, degree mark) is strictly required to perform a graduate job. School leavers fall into two categories, the rich and the poor. Ability is distributed in the same way in both...

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