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. When only skilled workers are mobile, there is a sub-optimal shift from taxes to fees and the number of students is too low …. When also students can migrate, there is a countervailing force such that maintaining the optimal financial mix becomes …
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The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that … are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students …, we find a significant positive correlation between the share of international students and the private funding share for …
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This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that a marginal introduction of tuition fees fully crowds out public funds under centralization, whereas educational...
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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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their resources inefficiently and focus insufficiently on their mission to expand students' human potential. Our aim in this …
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We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income. We compare four different systems and analyse voters' choices among them: A traditional subsidy scheme, a pure loan scheme, income contingent loans and graduate taxes. Using...
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This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an ensuing decline in subsidies. Growing public expenditures increase the future size of the higher income class and thus boost future demand for education. This demand shift implies...
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This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the … also for mobile students may intensify the upward race of fees. The case of free-riding on the education provided by other …
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. Households differ in their financial endowment and their children’s ability. Non-students are immobile. Students decide where to … rates, but the larger are the numbers of exchange students …
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recognition of qualifications and furthering the goals of the Bologna reforms, the EU should promote mobility of students …
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