The costs of immigration to taxpayers : analytical and policy issues / Georges Vernez, Kevin F. McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vernez, Georges.

Contributor:

McCarthy, Kevin F., 1945-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Taxation.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Services for.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

United States.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants--Services for--United States--Costs.

Immigrants--Taxation--United States.

EE. UU--Emigración e inmigración--Política gubernamental.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Immigrants--Services for--Costs.

Local Subjects:

EE. UU--Emigración e inmigración--Política gubernamental.

Physical Description:

xix, 62 pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 1996.

Summary:

Because of recent rapid growth in the number of immigrants, their high concentration in a few states, and a lagging economy that has slowed the growth in public revenues, two questions have received considerable analytical and political attention in recent years: (1) do immigrants contribute more to public revenues than they receive in benefits from public services? and (2) do state and local governments pay a disproportionate share of the cost of services used by immigrants? This report reviews the estimates of the net fiscal costs of immigration made by several recent and well publicized studies of immigration at the national, state, and local levels. The authors find that these studies do not provide a reliable estimate of the net fiscal costs of immigration. Moreover, new data and agreement on a uniform accounting framework will be needed to reach a definitive answer to the policy questions about the costs of immigration.

Notes:

"MR-705-FF/IF"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62).

Other Format:

Online version: Vernez, Georges. Costs of immigration to taxpayers.

ISBN:

0833023586

9780833023582

OCLC:

34462161