Do Immigrants Bring Fiscal Dividends?: The Case of Venezuelan Immigration in Colombia
This paper analyzes the effects of recent Venezuelan immigration to Colombia on the fiscal balance, the labor market, and economic growth. For this purpose, we built a dynamic general equilibrium model with a search and matching structure in the labor market. The higher fiscal spending to address immigration negatively impacts the government's budget in the short term, which is offset by higher output, consumption, and employment level, increasing the government's revenues mainly through indirect tax collection. The effect on the labor market is different for unskilled workers--whose higher supply generates a negative effect on wages and an increase in the unemployment rate--and skilled workers, who benefit from higher wages and lower unemployment. These changes in the labor market affect the government's revenue, resulting, in the long term, in positive fiscal dividends of migration.
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| Language: | English |
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Inter-American Development Bank
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| Subjects: | Fiscal Policy, Tax Revenue, Unemployment Rate, Labor Market, Wage, Migration and Migrant, Tax Collection, H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies, E62 - Fiscal Policy, J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility • Immigrant Workers, Fiscal policy;Migration;labor market;Unemployment, |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002993 https://publications.iadb.org/en/do-immigrants-bring-fiscal-dividends-case-venezuelan-immigration-colombia |
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