Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98444 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2014-009
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, 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: he 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.
Subjects: 
financing of higher education
mobility of graduates
mobility of students
JEL: 
F22
H52
I23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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