This paper examines the net fiscal transfers to recent immigrants to Canada resulting from taxes and transfer programs as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It calculates that recent immigrants (defined as arriving between 1990 and 2004) on average...

Governments at all levels – federal, state and local – are suffering through ever more severe budget crises. The interests of these different levels of government are often assumed to be in conflict. For instance, it seems reasonable to believe that if the federal government were to get its...

While the literature on how intergovernmental grants affect the budget of receiving jurisdictions is numerous, the very few studies that explicitly deal with likely endogeneity problems focus on grants targeted towards specific sectors or to specific type of recipients. The results from these...