ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IMMIGRATION AND INCOME REDISTRIBUTION*
分析选民同时投票决定移民政策和再分配税收政策的经济体,发现移民未来投票权等因素会显著影响均衡政策,并提供了实证支持。
In this article, we analyze an economy in which agents vote over immigration policy and redistributive tax policy. We show that natives' preferences over immigration are influenced by the prospect that immigrants will be voting over future tax policy. We also show that changes in the degree of international capital mobility, the distribution of initial capital among natives, the wealth or poverty of the immigrant pool, and the future voting rights and entitlements of immigrants can have dramatic effects on equilibrium immigration and tax policies. Finally, we provide some empirical support for the model's predictions.