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

Tim Krieger, Alexander M. Haupt and Thomas Lange

No 49, Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2011 from Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics

Abstract: The paper presents a model of two countries competing for the international pool of talented students from the rest of the world. To relax tuition-fee competition, countries differentiate their education systems in equilibrium, albeit inefficiently. One country offers high educational quality at high tuition fees and attracts the brightest students; the other country provides lower quality and charges lower fees. Recent developments, such as an increasing number of international students or growing graduate incomes in developing countries, widen the gap between education systems. Furthermore, educational competition among developed countries provides scope for a qualitative brain gain in less developed countries.

Keywords: Higher education; student mobility; vertical quality differentiation; return migration; brain gain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H87 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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