Migrant Taxes and International Migration Patterns

Saibal Kar ()

South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance, 2012, vol. 1, issue 2, 231-243

Abstract: This article investigates the effect of ‘migration taxes’ on the migration pattern for skill types under asymmetric information in cross-border labour markets. In the presence of migration taxes, the top skill group migrating under complete asymmetric information may not be lower than that under symmetric information. We also establish that for the revenue maximizing tax authority, the regressive tax structure across skill types Pareto dominates all other schemes.

Keywords: Asymmetric information; migration tax; migration pattern; revenue maximization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/2277978712473400

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