Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46308 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3446
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In a two-period model, firms specialized in two different sectors lobby to induce the government to subsidize the type of education complementary to their production. Lobbying is endogenous. We show that, if lobbying is not costly, both sectors will lobby in equilibrium and education policy will induce the same skill composition that would be chosen by the social planner. However, if lobbying is costly, only one sector finds it profitable to offer monetary contribution and direct resources towards the type of education required by its production. Which sector will engage in lobbying depends on relative size, productivity and price in the two sectors.
JEL: 
I20
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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