The article deals with the controversial issue of the impact of immigration on income inequality and public finances. In particular, it contains a critical review of the theoretical and empirical literature on this topic, through which the author attempts to demonstrate how out-migration can increase income inequalities, thus hindering economic growth and exacerbating regional disparities, while immigration can reduce income inequalities and mitigate economic imbalances, according to the skilled immigration equalising hypothesis formulated in 2008 by Kahanec and Zimmermann. The study also includes some empirical evidence and policy proposals to use immigration as a tool for reduction of inequalities. From an analysis of the redistributive impact of internal immigration in Italy emerge useful suggestions to assist policy makers and lawgivers in the management of migratory phenomena and the restyling of tax-benefit systems to correct their redistributive effects.
The impact of immigration on income inequality and public finances (some empirical evidence and policy proposals for a profitable use of the “potential equalising power of immigration”) / Villani, Salvatore. - In: INNOVAZIONE E DIRITTO. - ISSN 1825-9871. - 12:3(2015), pp. 206-253.
The impact of immigration on income inequality and public finances (some empirical evidence and policy proposals for a profitable use of the “potential equalising power of immigration”)
VILLANI, SALVATORE
2015
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The article deals with the controversial issue of the impact of immigration on income inequality and public finances. In particular, it contains a critical review of the theoretical and empirical literature on this topic, through which the author attempts to demonstrate how out-migration can increase income inequalities, thus hindering economic growth and exacerbating regional disparities, while immigration can reduce income inequalities and mitigate economic imbalances, according to the skilled immigration equalising hypothesis formulated in 2008 by Kahanec and Zimmermann. The study also includes some empirical evidence and policy proposals to use immigration as a tool for reduction of inequalities. From an analysis of the redistributive impact of internal immigration in Italy emerge useful suggestions to assist policy makers and lawgivers in the management of migratory phenomena and the restyling of tax-benefit systems to correct their redistributive effects.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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