The paper addresses the crucial issue of the redistributive impact of the phenomenon of immigration for the destination areas. In particular, it studies the effects of immigration on income inequality, attempting to demonstrate how out-migration and low-skilled immigration can increase income inequalities, thus hindering economic growth and exacerbating regional disparities, while high-skilled immigration can reduce income inequalities and mitigate economic imbalances. Consequently, the paper aims to clarify the reasons why immigration, if properly managed, could be viewed as a resource rather than a problem, and used as an efficient tool of income redistribution. However, it also highlights that migration in itself would not resolve the issue of inequalities. At most, it would shift this forward, because the redistribution through immigration does not exempt from previously creating a minimum set of rules and institutions aimed to promote a major coordination and collaboration by governments, at international, national and local level, to change the present management systems of migration (in order to take into consideration the interests of migrants and their source countries and areas) and correct their redistributive effects (trying to extend to all the economic benefits and costs of migration). From the analysis of the redistributive impact of internal immigration in Italy emerge, moreover, some useful suggestions to help policy makers and lawgivers in the management of migratory phenomena and counteract the process of desertification of whole macro-areas through the strengthening of the tax and welfare systems resilience.

Income Inequality and Redistribution Policies in the New Era of Migration. An Analysis of the International Emerging Trends and the Italian Experience / Villani, Salvatore. - (2016). (Intervento presentato al convegno IASFM 16: Rethinking Forced Migration and Displacement: Theory, Policy, and Praxis tenutosi a Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland nel July 12-15, 2016).

Income Inequality and Redistribution Policies in the New Era of Migration. An Analysis of the International Emerging Trends and the Italian Experience

VILLANI, SALVATORE
2016

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The paper addresses the crucial issue of the redistributive impact of the phenomenon of immigration for the destination areas. In particular, it studies the effects of immigration on income inequality, attempting to demonstrate how out-migration and low-skilled immigration can increase income inequalities, thus hindering economic growth and exacerbating regional disparities, while high-skilled immigration can reduce income inequalities and mitigate economic imbalances. Consequently, the paper aims to clarify the reasons why immigration, if properly managed, could be viewed as a resource rather than a problem, and used as an efficient tool of income redistribution. However, it also highlights that migration in itself would not resolve the issue of inequalities. At most, it would shift this forward, because the redistribution through immigration does not exempt from previously creating a minimum set of rules and institutions aimed to promote a major coordination and collaboration by governments, at international, national and local level, to change the present management systems of migration (in order to take into consideration the interests of migrants and their source countries and areas) and correct their redistributive effects (trying to extend to all the economic benefits and costs of migration). From the analysis of the redistributive impact of internal immigration in Italy emerge, moreover, some useful suggestions to help policy makers and lawgivers in the management of migratory phenomena and counteract the process of desertification of whole macro-areas through the strengthening of the tax and welfare systems resilience.
2016
Income Inequality and Redistribution Policies in the New Era of Migration. An Analysis of the International Emerging Trends and the Italian Experience / Villani, Salvatore. - (2016). (Intervento presentato al convegno IASFM 16: Rethinking Forced Migration and Displacement: Theory, Policy, and Praxis tenutosi a Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland nel July 12-15, 2016).
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