Educating Europe
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چکیده
The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. Such e¤ects may be especially severe for the prospective new member states of the European Union. The European Union could overcome this by allowing countries to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how such a system could look like for Finland, as well as discusses its implementation. Such contracts could be voluntary, education ...nanced publicly only for those accepting also to share the returns. With EU enlargement, such reforms could generate a triple dividend.
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