Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Perspective
CES Working Paper Univ. of Munich No. 122
Posted: 18 Feb 1997
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Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Perspective
IMF Working Paper No. 97/78
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 15 Feb 2006
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Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Perspective
NBER Working Paper No. w5850
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 30 Jun 2000
Last Revised: 28 Dec 2022
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Date Written: December 1996
Abstract
The extent of taxation and redistribution policy is generally determined at a political-economy equilibrium by a balance between those who gain and those who lose from a more extensive tax-transfer policy. In a stylized model of migration and human capital formation we find, somewhat against conventional wisdom, that low-skill migration may lead to a lower tax burden and less redistribution than without migration, even though the migrants (naturally) join the pro-tax cum transfer coalition.
JEL Classification: F22, H2, J1
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Razin, Assaf and Sadka, Efraim, Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Perspective (December 1996). CES Working Paper Univ. of Munich No. 122, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4658
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