Is the Net Fiscal Burden a Proper Predictor of the Political Attitude towards Migration?

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka
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Efraim Sadka: Tel-Aviv University

Chapter 11 in Migration States and Welfare States: Why Is America Different from Europe?, 2014, pp 58-64 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Net fiscal burden has been used as an indicator for the native-born income losses from low-skilled migration. But in the context of a pay-as-you-go welfare system with overlapping generations, the indicator is not correct. It does not properly predict the gains for the native- born from the support the migrants provide by increasing the workforce to the welfare system.

Keywords: Fiscal burden; pay-as-you-go welfare system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137443809_11

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