Brain drain, fiscal competition, and public education expenditure.

Autor/inn/en	Egger, Hartmut; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker
Titel	Brain drain, fiscal competition, and public education expenditure.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2007), 37, [7] S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 2747
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsverhalten; Bildung; Bildungspolitik; Koordination; Modell; Staat; Standort; Theorie; Wettbewerb; Wirtschaftspolitik; Bildungspolitik; Ausgaben; Bildungsverhalten; Land; Land; Standort; Staat; Ausgaben; Wettbewerb; Wirtschaftspolitik; Brain Drain; Arbeitspapier; Koordination; Modell; Theorie
Abstract	This paper uses a two-country model with integrated markets for high-skilled labor to analyze the opportunities and incentives for national governments to provide higher education. Countries can differ in productivity, and education is financed through a wage tax, so that brain drain affects the tax base and has agglomeration effects. We study unilateral possibilities for triggering or avoiding brain drain and compare education policies and migration patterns in non-cooperative political equilibria with the consequences of bilateral cooperation between countries. We thereby demonstrate that bilateral coordination tends to increase public education expenditure compared to non-cooperation. At the same time, it aims at preventing migration. This is not necessarily desirable from the point of view of a social planner who takes account of the interests of migrants. [Orig.].
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2008/3