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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

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Panu Poutvaara () (University of Helsinki and IZA Bonn)

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This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. Migration provides a market insurance in case labor market opportunities in the home country are poor. An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many lawyers.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2478.

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Date of creation: Dec 2006
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Keywords: public education; migration; brain drain and brain gain; European Union; common labor market;

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H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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