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Social security incentives, human capital investment and mobility of labor

Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human … capital investments in both countries. The possibility of emigration boosts investments in human capital in the country with … countries, allowing for migration may generate a Pareto-improvement for all current and future generations. Without transfers …

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On human capital formation with exit options: comment and new results

Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …

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Income taxes, property values and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may even transfer income from the poor to the rich, reducing the rents earned …

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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The expansion of higher education and time-consistent taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it … income redistribution. …

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