Financing Higher Education When Students and Graduates Are Internationally Mobile (Book version)

Gérard, Marcel;Uebelmesser, Silke
(2014) The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled, Implications for Education Financing and Economic Policy — ISBN: [978-0-262-02817-2], p. 145-188, published

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  • Gérard, MarcelUCLouvain
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  • Uebelmesser, SilkeUniversity of Jena, Germany
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Globalization and student and graduate mobility have important consequences for fiscal policy. The capacity to generate public revenue becomes more limited, though the need for public expenditure continues to rise (in particular, see chapter 5 by Wildasin in this volume). In this chapter we examine the consequences of international mobility of students and graduates for one specific aspect of fiscal policy, the financing of higher education. The point of view we adopt might be regarded as typically European. The European features we highlight, however, amply support a more general argument. The main features are the following: First, it is widely understood that the mobility of students and graduates is desirable for the building of the European Union. Second, two key instruments that favor the mobility of students, as set up by the EU legislative body, deserve further examination. Finally, the EU legislative framework introduces legal constraints to the education policies of EU member states. We start with some details about these features that are relevant for understanding the European higher education system and related issues, especially those that differ from education in the United States.
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Gérard, M., & Uebelmesser, S. (2014). Financing Higher Education When Students and Graduates Are Internationally Mobile (Book version). In Marcel Gérard ; Silke Uebelmesser (eds.) (ed.), The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled, Implications for Education Financing and Economic Policy (p. p. 145-188). The MIT Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/191435