TY  - SER
AU  -  Sachs, Dominik
AU  - Colas, Mark
TI  - The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration
SN  - 1945-7731
PB  - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
KW  -  Immigrant Workers, Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition
KW  -  includes inheritance and gift taxes, State and Local Government: Health
KW  -  Labor Productivity, Geographic Labor Mobility
KW  -  Non-labor Discrimination, Human Capital
KW  - Economics
KW  - Education
N2  - Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on resident wages and labor supply. We operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in a model of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions for this effect in terms of estimable statistics. An empirical quantification for the United States reveals an indirect fiscal benefit for one average low-skilled immigrant of roughly
UR  - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20220176
ER  -