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Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...

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On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results

Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 … reduce human capital formation with a quadratic production technology. …

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Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrants from a Welfare State

Poutvaara, Panu; Kauppinen, Ilpo - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of origin among those who stay in a welfare state, and those who emigrate. We find a striking gender difference among Danish emigrants. Majority of men opposes increasing income redistribution, while majority of women...

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Public education in an integrated Europe: Studying to migrate and teaching to stay?

Poutvaara, Panu - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2005

An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...

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Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrantsfrom a Welfare State

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2012

This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of originamong those who stay in a welfare state, and those who emigrate. We find a strikinggender difference among Danish emigrants. Majority of men opposes increasing incomeredistribution, while majority of women...

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Public education in an integrated Europe : studying to migrate and teaching to stay?

Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

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Student flows and migration : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …

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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 … countries, allowing for migration may generate a Paretoimprovement 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 - 2006

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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 … countries, allowing for migration may generate a Pareto-improvement for all current and future generations. Without transfers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267335