Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying for Migration and Teaching for Staying?

Panu Poutvaara

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Abstract: Both current and especially new member states of the European Union face incentives to distort the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education towards country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many lawyers. Such an outcome could be avoided by introducing graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. By giving the providers of internationally applicable education a stake also in efficiency gains earned elsewhere, graduate taxes would encourage member states to invest more in internationally applicable education.

Keywords: graduate taxes; European Union; migration; brain drain and brain gain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H24 H52 I28 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004-06-14
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 35
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