Arbeitspapier

Subsidizing education in the economic periphery: Another pitfall or regional policies?

One of the most prominent instruments of regional policy is to foster education and human capital formation in economically lagging regions. However, regional policy of this type can actually hurt instead of help the poor areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with the personal skill level. Through education subsidies, particularly if targeted on relatively high skilled workers, individuals can cross some threshold level of qualification beyond which emigration accrues. Regional policies then result in a human capital flight harmful to individuals remaining in the economic periphery. This fatal result does not hold for such policies that foster basic education and focus on the relatively low skilled.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 209

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Regional Policy
Education Subsidies
Human Capital
Labour Mobility
European Union
Regionalpolitik
Bildungspolitik
Subvention
Bildungsinvestition
Brain Drain
Kern-Peripherie-Beziehung
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Südekum, Jens
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
(wo)
Hamburg
(wann)
2002

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Südekum, Jens
  • Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)

Entstanden

  • 2002

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