Taxation, Migration, and Pollution |
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Authors: | Agnar Sandmo David E Wildasin |
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Institution: | (1) Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, N-5035 Bergen-Sandviken, NORWAY;(2) Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper analyzes optimal fiscal, environmental and immigration policy for a single jurisdiction. In the presence of immigration
quotas, taxes on the output of externality-producing industries should be higher than indicated by the standard rule for Pigovian
corrective taxation. Immigration quotas are not optimal if fiscal instruments can be used to control immigration, and relaxation
of immigration quotas generally increases domestic welfare. If optimal taxes are imposed on immigrants, no immigration quota
should be imposed, and a version of the traditional Pigovian rule characterizes optimal taxation of domestic externalities.
If production in the immigrants' country of origin causes trans-boundary spillovers, domestic welfare can be improved by lighter
taxation of immigrants or by further relaxation of immigration quotas.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | taxation migration pollution quotas vstariffs |
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