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The changes made to Australian higher education financing in the 1996-97 Budget are arguable the most significant since …
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it has taken place, attention needs to be given to a whole range of issues. These include : scale of higher education …, funding, university/government relations, research, diversity, quality, higher education and vocational education and training …. The reforms that have occurred in the Astralian higher education sector in recent years, and those that are currently …
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It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...
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Due to the unknown future economic situation of students, private banks are unwilling to provide student loans in the absence of collateral. This market failure requires government intervention to prevent socially sub-optimal and regressive outcomes. Income contingent loans, whose repayment...
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There is a significant and on-going unease with, and debate concerning, the state of US college loans. One of the most important questions relates to so-called “repayment burdens”, the financial difficulties associated with repayments. This paper examines the issue from both theoretical and...
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supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education across countries. …
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It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to students’ future … education. The historically most common response to this market failure — a government guarantee to repay student loans to banks …
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This paper illustrates the extent of implicit taxpayer subsidies under four possible income contingent loan (ICL) arrangements for Thailand: TICAL, implemented in 2007 only, a variant of TICAL, and two alternative ICL schemes. The implicit taxpayer subsidy calculated with respect to average...
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This chapter compares and contrasts international experience with respect to higher education financing. The size and …
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The public vocational education and training (VET) system is now one of the few areas in Australia’s tertiary education …-optimal educational outcomes to the extent that prospective students reject a VET education on the basis of short-term financial … financial instrument based on the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS)). It is argued that income contingent loans of …
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