The Effect of a Negative Income Tax on Migration
利用西雅图和丹佛收入维持实验数据，分析负所得税项目如何影响移民的目的地选择、劳动力市场行为及体验，发现负所得税可能促使低收入人口向环境更好但工资更低的地区迁移。
This paper presents an analysis of the impact of a negative income tax (NIT) program on the destination choices labor market behavior and experiences of migrants at their destination. Data from the Seattle and Denver Income Maintenance Experiments are used to provide estimates of these impacts. This theory unlike the more traditional human capital model postulates that migration is in part due to changes in the demand for location-specific environmental variables. It is assumed that there is a trade-off between the level of the environment and the real wage level and this defines an implicit shadow price of the environment. It is shown that an NIT program would change the demand for the environment leisure and market consumption because it affects their relative prices and income. Thus an NIT program should affect the rate of migration and types of destiantions chosen by migrants and should affect their labor market behavior at these destinations. One likely impact of a nationwide NIT program would be a redistribution of the lower income population to regions with better environments and lower wage rates.