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Migration and Redistribution: Federal Governance of an Economic Union Matters

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

No 28558, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Both the U.S. and the EU are an economic union: There is a single market for goods, capital, finance, and labor. That is, there is free mobility of goods and services, physical and financial capital, and labor among the member countries of the union. Nevertheless, there is much higher degree of economic policy coordination among the member states of the U.S than of the EU. We argue, by using a model of a union exhibiting migration-based fiscal externality, that the degree of coordination among the member states potentially contribute a great deal to our understanding of observed policy differences between the EU and the US as economic unions: the generosity of the welfare state and the skill composition of migration.

JEL-codes: F02 H0 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-03
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Published as Assaf Razin & Efraim Sadka, 2021. "Migration and redistribution: Why the federal governance of an economic union does matter," Journal of Government and Economics, vol 1.

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