Migration State and Welfare State: Competition vs. Coordination in an Economic Union / Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Razin, Assaf.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Sadka, Efraim.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21606.

NBER working paper series no. w21606

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Migration State and Welfare State

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.

Summary:

We develop a political-economy model of economic union and compare the competion regime to the coordination regime. Key policy differences emerge between the two regimes: concerning the generosity of the welfare state and the skill composition of migration. We argue that the differences between the U.S. and the EU - the degree of coordination among the member states - contribute to the observed policy differences, as the model predicts.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2015.