Böheim, René; Mayr, Karin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical … immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily depends on native’s preferences for private versus public good … spending. We empirically test our theoretical hypotheses, the ‘fiscal effect’ and the ‘anti-social effect’ of immigration using …