On the political economy of immigration and income redistribution

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dolmas, J; Huffman, GW
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Dallas; Vanderbilt University
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-6598.2004.00300.x
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 1129-1168
• 关键词: labor-markets; POLICY

摘要

In this article, we analyze an economy in which agents vote over immigration policy and redistributive tax policy. We show that natives' preferences over immigration are influenced by the prospect that immigrants will be voting over future tax policy. We also show that changes in the degree of international capital mobility, the distribution of initial capital among natives, the wealth or poverty of the immigrant pool, and the future voting rights and entitlements of immigrants can have dramatic effects on equilibrium immigration and tax policies. Finally, we provide some empirical support for the model's predictions.