Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21087 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 239
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar to benevolent governments. The two types of government differ in their education policies if highly productive labor is fully mobile. Extortionary governments? incentives for education subsidies vanish and they even have an incentive to prevent individuals from mobility increasing education investment. Tax competition therefore reduces hold-up problems of time consistent extortionary taxation, but also introduces incentives that reduce workers? utility.
Subjects: 
Globalization
commitment
time consistent income taxation
migration
education
JEL: 
H21
H23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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