Public goods .nance and immigration

• Autores: Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe Cortajarena, José Gabriel Romero
• Localización: XIX Encuentro de Economía Pública: Políticas Públicas para la salida de la crisis, 2012, ISBN 978-84-695-1574-7, pág. 54
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this paper we present and test a model in which the interaction between community decisions, the political process, and agents. preferences determine the shape of immigration and social (tax-expenditure) policies. Our theoretical analysis shows that when the middle class is decisive, political competition leads to over-provision of the (local) public good and to immigration quotas that result below the social optimal level, which makes natives more tolerant to the arrival of (low-skill) immigrants.