Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

Panu Poutvaara

No 2478, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. Migration provides a market insurance in case labor market opportunities in the home country are poor. 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 skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many lawyers.

Keywords: common labor market; European Union; brain drain and brain gain; migration; public education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H52 I28 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2006-12
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Published - published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (3), 591–608

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Working Paper: Public education in an integrated Europe: Studying to migrate and teaching to stay? (2005)
Working Paper: Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay? (2004)
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