Arbeitspapier

Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy

Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility, and analyzes the economic incidence of fiscal transfers to low-skilled workers that are financed by taxes on imperfectly-mobile high-skilled workers in a dynamic model, distinguishing the short-run, transitional, and long-run gains and losses to contributors and beneficiaries.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8199

Classification
Wirtschaft
Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Subject
migration
taxes
redistribution
dynamic incidence

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Wildasin, David
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2014

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Wildasin, David
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2014

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