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How Migration Can Change Income Inequality?

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  • Assaf Razin
  • Efraim Sadka

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Motivated by the unique experience of Israel of a supply-side shock of skilled migration, and the concurrent rise in disposable income inequality, this paper develops a model which can explain the mechanism through which a supply-side shock of skilled migration can reshape the political-economy balance and the redistributive policies. First, it depresses the incentives for unskilled migrants to flow in, though they are still free to do so. Second, tax-transfer system becomes less progressive. Nonetheless, the unskilled native-born may well become better-off, even though they lose their political clout.

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  • Assaf Razin & Efraim Sadka, 2016. "How Migration Can Change Income Inequality?," NBER Working Papers 22191, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:22191
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    1. Razin, Assaf & Sadka, Efraim, 1993. "The Economy of Modern Israel," University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press, edition 1, number 9780226705897, October.
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    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • H0 - Public Economics - - General
    • J0 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General

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