Competition for the International Pool of Talent: Education Policy and Student Mobility

Alexander Haupt (), Tim Krieger and Thomas Lange

No 35, Working Papers CIE from Paderborn University, CIE Center for International Economics

Abstract: This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In equilibrium, one country offers high educational quality for high tuition fees, while the other country provides a low quality and charges low fees. The quality in the high quality country, the tuition fees, and the quality and tuition fee differential between the countries increase with the income prospects in ROW and the number of international students. Higher stay rates of foreign students lead to more ambiguous results. In particular, an increase in educational quality can be accompanied by a decline in tuition fees. Furthermore, international competition for students can give rise to a brain gain in ROW.

Keywords: Higher education; student mobility; vertical quality di erentiation; return migration; brain gain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H87 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2011-03
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Working Paper: Competition for the International Pool of Talent: Education Policy and Student Mobility (2011)
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