Educating Europe: Should Public Education be Financed with Graduate Taxes or Income-contingent Loans?

Poutvaara, Panu (2004): Educating Europe: Should Public Education be Financed with Graduate Taxes or Income-contingent Loans? In: CESifo Economic Studies, Bd. 50, Nr. 4: S. 663-684

Abstract

The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. Graduate taxes or income-contingent loans result in higher welfare than financing education with employment-based taxes. (JEL H 24, H 52, I 28, F 22)

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Volkswirtschaft ; Volkswirtschaft > Lehrstühle > CESifo-Professur für Vergleichende Institutionenökonomik
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• Sprache: Englisch