Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 2 No. 3 1984
Subsidies for Higher Education
Abstract
Who should pay the resource costs of higher education? This paper investigates a simple model of the general equilibrium of the labor market with three skill levels. Those in the population with the lower level of intelligence and/or sophistication can only become low-skilled workers, but the brighter segment of the population can become either high- or medium-skilled workers. Given the tax structure, the welfare of each group is maximized by a unique subsidy rate on the cost of training high-skilled workers. Under several circumstances, the lower IQ group wants a higher subsidy rate than will the group that benefits directly from the training.
- DOI
- 10.1086/298035
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 303-318
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref