Taxes and Migration Flows: Preferential Tax Schemes for High-Skill Immigrants
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Series
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Speaker(s)Pedro Teles (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Portugal)
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FieldMacroeconomics
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LocationTinbergen Institute Amsterdam, room 1.01
Amsterdam -
Date and time
November 23, 2023
16:00 - 17:15
Abstract
We study preferential tax schemes for high-skill immigrants such as those adopted in Europe in the past two decades. The assessment is very negative. While they induce an immigration surplus tilted towards the low-skill, they also give rise to an emigration deficit, that may more than offset the surplus. We find that the unilateral adoption tends to hurt both low- and high-skill workers while the multilateral adoption redistributes from low-skill to high-skill workers. Joint work with João Brogueira de Sousa.