This work deals with the interplay of skilled worker emigration and school participation in small developing economies. We develop an Overlapping generations framework with talent heterogeneity, where agents make intertemporal decisions on schooling and emigration. The main innovation compared...

This dissertation is a contribution to the theoretical foundation of optimal tax codes in models with human capital formation. From the economic point of view, a tax system should generate the government’s required revenue with as little economic distortion as possible. In the literature this...