Migration States and Welfare States - Why Is America Different From Europe?

Migration States and Welfare States focuses on a central tension faced by policy makers in countries that receive migrants from lower wage countries.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Welfare State 3. Migration State 4. Free versus Controlled Migration: Analytics 5. Free versus Controlled Migration: Migration 6. Principles of International Taxation 7. Intra-Union Competition 8. Intra-Union Coordination 9. Competition versus Coordination: the U.S. and the EU 10. Aging and Migration: the U.S. and the EU 11. Is the Net Fiscal Burden a Proper Predictor of the Political Attitude towards Migration 12. Conclusion

About the author

Assaf Razin is the Barbara and Steve Friedman Professor of International Economics at Cornell University, USA, and Professor Emeritus of Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
 
Efraim Sadka is Henry Kaufman Professor of International Capital Markets, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Summary

These attributes, coupled with the host country's welfare system, attract low-skilled migrants, who find a generous welfare state particularly attractive, while deterring skilled migrants, who recognize that welfare states likely have higher redistributive taxes.

Product details

• Authors: Razin, A Razin, A. Razin, Assaf Razin, Assaf Sadka Razin, E Sadka, E. Sadka, Efraim Sadka
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2014
• EAN: 9781137445643
• ISBN: 978-1-137-44564-3
• No. of pages: 75
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; C, Welfare State, Welfare, Economic theory & philosophy, Social welfare & social services, Public Economics, International Economics, Social Service, Regional Studies, Regional/Spatial Science, Welfare economics, Regional and Spatial Economics, regional economics, Management science, Central / national / federal government policies, Public finance, Spatial economics, Public finance & taxation, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Social Care, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Choice and Welfare