UK overseas students: Market forces shrink demand

Psychiatric Morbidity among Overseas Students

As immigration for higher education is becoming more common now a days, the adjustment of overseas students to the host country is receiving more attention. This paper describes the results of a study which examined the prevalence and pattern of psychological disturbances among overseas and British students studying at Edinburgh University. The practical implications of these findings and sugge...

Venereal diseases in the armed forces overseas.

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Fees, funding and overseas study: mobile UK students and educational inequalities

An article in The Guardian in 2006 claimed that: ‘some bright students have found an answer to the fees nightmare: in Europe’ (Clark, 2006). It went on to argue that the introduction of variable fees in the UK in 2006 had encouraged some UK students to consider moving overseas for their degrees and, in particular, to European countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands, which charged low fees ...

Should UK membership exams be held overseas? No.

Market Forces and CEO Pay: Shocks to CEO Demand Induced by IPO Waves

I develop a simple model of wages set in competitive equilibrium and derive predictions regarding the response of wages when an inelastic supply of CEO labor cannot match an increase in demand. The model predicts that the CEO pay-size elasticity increases when more firms compete for a fixed supply of managers, a prediction robust to a broad class of distributions commonly used. I then empirical...