The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration
研究了低技能移民通过影响居民工资和劳动供给，间接改善公共财政的效果，发现每位低技能移民每年带来约750美元的间接财政收益，可能抵消其直接财政负担。
Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on resident wages and labor supply. We operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in a model of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions for this effect in terms of estimable statistics. An empirical quantification for the United States reveals an indirect fiscal benefit for one average low-skilled immigrant of roughly $750 annually. The indirect fiscal benefit may outweigh the negative direct fiscal effect that has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden.