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Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

. College education of either partner makes couples more, and having children makes couples less mobile. Power couples are most …

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International Migration of Couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....

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Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2007

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a … motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a result of increasing own income, the median voter prefers in the … future lower taxes than without higher education. Therefore, the expansion of participation in higher education during the …

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Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz - 2005

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Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2006

Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not...

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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs … have lower incomes. We also analyze those who changed careers. Those with higher level of education are more likely to …

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State

Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...

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Public-sector outsourcing : the desirability of outsourcing the provision of public services depends on their characteristics and market conditions

Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous for health care. Natural monopolies are unsuitable for outsourcing. Network …

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On the political economy of social security and public education

Poutvaara, Panu - 2001

This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a European economy with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax rate...

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