Welfare effects of migration in societies with indirect taxes, income transfers and public good provision

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Michael, MS; Hatzipanayotou, P
• 署名单位: University of Cyprus; Athens University of Economics & Business
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3878(00)00122-X
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 1-24
• 关键词: international migration; taxes; TARIFFS; income transfers; welfare

摘要

We construct a general equilibrium trade model of a two-class small open host or source country. When consumption tax revenue finances the provision of a public good, marginal migration reduces social welfare in the source country and raises it in the host. When consumption tax revenue is equally distributed among domestic households in each country, then migration has an ambiguous impact on social welfare in either country. When tariff revenue in either country is either equally distributed among domestic households, or it is used to finance the provision of a public good, then migration has an ambiguous effect on social welfare in the host country, and is expected to reduce social welfare in the source. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: F22: International migration; H14: Public goods.