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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
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833939
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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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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 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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659182
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914274
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Competition in Funding Higher Education
Eckwert, Bernhard; Zilcha, Itzhak - CESifo - 2011
In higher education pure credit market funding leads to underinvestment while income-contingent loans funding tends to produce overinvestment. We analyze whether a market structure in which both funding schemes coexist and compete against each other might restore efficiency of the educational...
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Financing Higher Education and Labor Mobility
Demange, Gabrielle; Fenge, Robert; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2008
This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence of imperfect credit markets the education level with...
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