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Mobility and the Role of Education as a Commitment Device

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 450

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Education
intergenerational transfers
commitment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Thum, Claudio
Uebelmesser, Silke
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2001

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Thum, Claudio
  • Uebelmesser, Silke
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2001

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