Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Perspective

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

No 122, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

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.

Date: 1996
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