Financing Higher Education when Students and Graduates are Internationally Mobile

Silke Übelmesser () and Marcel Gerard ()
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Silke Übelmesser: School of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Postal: Carl-Zeiß-Straße 3, D-07743 Jena
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No 2014-009, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: This paper aims at linking cross border mobility of students and graduates with the financing of higher education. Against the background of institutional features and empirical evidence of the European Union and Northern America, a theoretical framework is developed. This allows analyzing the optimal financing regimes for different migration scenarios, comparing them with the regimes in place and discussing possible remedies. In particular, the (optimal) sharing of education costs between students / graduates and tax-payers is studied as well as the (optimal) sharing of the tax-payers' part between the various countries involved: the country which provides higher education (the host country), the country of previous education (the origin country) and possibly the countries which benefit from the improved skills of the workers. Alternative designs exhibiting potentially desirable properties are developed and policy recommendations derived.

Keywords: Mobility of students; Mobility of graduates; Financing of higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H52 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-03-31
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-edu, nep-ger, nep-int and nep-mig
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