On the Fiscal Impacts of Immigration

This work consists of two parts dealing with specific public finance effects of immigration, one empirical and one theoretical. The first part analyses the fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria within the method of generational accounting, which allows to take into account projected demographic scenarios for both natives and immigrants. Since the latter inherently have different lifetime patterns of residence and supposedly have different earnings and benefit recipiency patterns, they will generally make an important difference to public budgets. In the second part, a political economy model is used to determine the impact of immigrant voting on the outcome of a (direct) tax vote, and therefore the level of redistribution. Thus, both the actual participation of immigrants in fiscal redistribution in a host country as well as their possible political influence on the level of such redistribution are dealt with.

List of contents

Contents: Public finance effects of immigration - Fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria - Immigrant voting and the outcome of a (direct) tax vote.

Product details

• Authors: Karin Mayr
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9783631533406
• ISBN: 978-3-631-53340-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 10 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 240 g
• Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 5): Volks- und Betriebswirtschaft / European University Studies (Series 5): Economics and Management / Publica; Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européenn; Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 5): Volks- und Betriebswirtschaft / Economics and Management; Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 05): Volks- und Betriebswirtschaft / Economics and Management; Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 05): Volks- und Betriebswirtschaft / Economics and Management; Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies/Publications Universitaires Européenne
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics