TY  - JOUR
AU  - Razin,Assaf
AU  - Sadka,Efraim
TI  - Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Perspective
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5850
PY  - 1996
Y2  - December 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5850
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5850.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Assaf Razin
Department of Economics
Cornell University
Uris 422
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607/255-9625
Fax: 607/255-2818
E-Mail: ar256@cornell.edu

Efraim Sadka
Tel Aviv University
Eitan Berglas School of Economics
P.O.B. 39040
Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, ISRAEL
E-Mail: sadka@post.tau.ac.il
AB  - 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.
ER  -