Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75723 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 450
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
European integration forces system competition within European countries. This competition has important implications for both the public pay-as-you-go pension scheme and the public education system. Without labor mobility, each generation has an incentive to invest in the human capital of the subsequent generation in order to maximize pension payments. It is a popular belief that increasing labor mobility decreases the incentives to finance the education of the subsequent generation. This paper shows that this is not true if human capital investment increases the mobility of the subsequent generation and can thus be used as a commitment device for low taxes.
Subjects: 
Education
intergenerational transfers
commitment
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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