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Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State

Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...

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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation

Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2005

Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show … with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children’s education. This result holds …

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Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2007

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a … motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a result of increasing own income, the median voter prefers in the … future lower taxes than without higher education. Therefore, the expansion of participation in higher education during the …

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Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2005

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On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education

Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2001

This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a “European economy” with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax...

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Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment

Lau, Morten I.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2001

While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these systems on individuals’ incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical...

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Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor

Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2005

country with flat-rate benefits may reduce their investment in education. With suitably planned transfers between the two …

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Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged

Poutvaara, Panu - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2002

, the middle-aged owning land may gain by providing public education even when they cannot tax the young and when the young … face no credit market constraints. This requires that labor is not mobile. Furthermore, establishing public education may … benefit only the generation which pays for education twice, first for itself and then for the next generation. …

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

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 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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Gerontocracy Revisited. Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-Aged

Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2001

-aged owning land may gain by providing public education even when they cannot tax the young. This requires that labor is not … mobile. Furthermore, establishing public education may benefit only the generation which pays for education twice, first for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406281