Arbeitspapier

Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model

We investigate externalities in higher education enrollment over the course of development in a two-sector model. Each sector works with only one type of labor, skilled or unskilled, and individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. Both sectors exhibit productivity externalities in the size of the skill-specific labor and in the average human capital of workers. When skill-biased technological change prevails, it may well be the case that intermediate stages of development witness underenrollment in higher education, while highly developed economies experience overenrollment.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3889

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Externalities
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Analysis of Education
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economic Development: General
Thema
higher education
enrollment
externalities
two-sector model
Studium
Schulbesuch
Mehr-Sektoren-Modell
Produktivität
Humankapital
Externer Effekt
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Meier, Volker
Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Meier, Volker
  • Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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