Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy

David Wildasin

No 8199, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility, and analyzes the economic incidence of fiscal transfers to low-skilled workers that are financed by taxes on imperfectly-mobile high-skilled workers in a dynamic model, distinguishing the short-run, transitional, and long-run gains and losses to contributors and beneficiaries.

Keywords: redistribution; taxes; migration; dynamic incidence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H2 H5 J11 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2014-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma, nep-mig and nep-pbe
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Published - published in: M. Gérard and S. Uebelmesser (eds.), The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled: Implications for Education Financing and Economic Policy, MIT Press, 2014

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