Migration-regime liberalization and social security
Subtitle: political-economy effect
By: Assaf Razin, Edith Sand.
Contributors: Sand, Edith.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15013; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15013.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The pay-as-you-go social security system, increasingly burdened by dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants whose birth rates exceed those of the native born birth.  The paper examines adynamic political-economy mechanism through which the social security system influences the young decisive voter's attitudes in favor of a more liberal immigration regime.  A Markov equilibrium with social security consists of a more liberal migration policy, than a corresponding equilibrium with no social security.  Thus, the social security system effectively provides an incentive to liberalize migration policy through a political-economy mechanism"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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