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What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types of public policies. We argue that public...
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The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and income distribution that followed a massive public expansion of higher education. We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth...
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Should education be subsidized for the purpose of redistribution? The usual argument against subsidies to education … the absence of a strive for redistribution, the market generates the efficient level of investment in human capital. When … there is a demand for redistribution, the general equilibrium effects on relative wages might make a subsidy to education an …
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This paper considers an optimal income tax cum higher educationpolicy.It shows that in the presence of an optimal income tax systemhigher education should be taxed rather than subsidized.Furthermore, income taxes should become less progressive whenan optimal higher education policy is introduced.
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