Welfare migration
Subtitle: is the net fiscal burden a good measure of its economic impact on the welfare of the native born population?
By: Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka.
Contributors: Sadka, Efraim.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10682; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10682.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Alien labor; Welfare state
Description: "Migration of young workers (as distinct from retirees), even when driven in by the generosity of the welfare state, slows down the trend of increasing dependency ratio.  But, even though low-skill migration improves the dependency ratio, it nevertheless burdens the welfare state.  Recent studies by Smith and Edmonston (1977), and Sinn et al (2003) comprehensively estimate the fiscal burden that low-skill migration imposes on the fiscal system.  However an important message of this paper is that in an infinite-horizon set-up, one cannot fully grasp the implications of migration for the welfare state, just by looking at the net fiscal burden that migrants impose on the fiscal system.  In an infinite-horizon, overlapping generations economy, this net burden, could change to net gain to the native born population"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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