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Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Perspective

By Efraim Sadka, Assaf Razin

June 1, 1997

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Efraim Sadka, and Assaf Razin. Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Perspective, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed December 9, 2024
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Summary

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 no migration, even though the migrants join the pro-tax coalition.

Subject: Consumption, Education, Migration, National accounts, Population and demographics, Tax incidence, Tax policy

Keywords: Consumption, Equilibrium migration condition, Equilibrium tax rate, Income gap, Low-skill migrant, Math, Migration, Migration quota, Mover accent, Tax incidence, Tax-transfer policy, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    13

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1997/078

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0781997

  • ISBN:

    9781451956283

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941