This paper investigates the impact of emigration on the political choice regarding the size of the welfare state …. Mobility has two countervailing effects: the political participation effect and the tax base effect. With emigration, the … political majority has to take into account that emigration reduces tax revenues and thereby affects the feasible set of …

relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …

relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …

low skilled employment, provided that fiscal redistribution is not too intense and the elasticity between high and low …

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

capturing the rationale and essence of the above-mentioned redistribution model and considers its sensitivity and robustness to …

factor mobility (such as capital). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may … nullify the'race to the bottom' hypothesis. Labor migration is governed not only by net-of-tax factor rewards, but rather … importantly also by the benefits that the welfare state provides. The paper analyzes fiscal competition with and without migration …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …