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The social preferences of the native inhabitants, and the decision how many asylum seekers to admit
Review of World Economics ( IF 1.5 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-26 , DOI: 10.1007/s10290-019-00355-0
Oded Stark , Marcin Jakubek , Krzysztof Szczygielski

We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a consequence of their social preferences, the latter experience disutility caused by relative deprivation. Because integrating the asylum seekers into the mainstream labor force and thereby into the income distribution of the native population “from below” reduces the relative deprivation of the low-income natives, admitting and integrating asylum seekers can be socially beneficial. We derive the optimal number of asylum seekers by maximizing the natives’ social welfare function that incorporates these considerations. We find that as long as the cost of admission and integration is not exceptionally high, this number is strictly positive. We then address the issue of how to distribute a given number of asylum seekers among several receiving countries. We find that, rather than allocating the asylum seekers in proportion to the population of each country, aggregate welfare will be maximized through an allocation that is increasing in the within-country difference between the incomes of the high-income natives and the low-income natives. Additionally, we formulate conditions under which admission of the optimal number of asylum seekers is socially preferable to a direct transfer of income from high-income natives to low-income natives.

中文翻译:

当地居民的社会偏好以及决定接纳多少寻求庇护者的决定

我们考虑通过税收资助的政策,在一个土著居民的收入有所不同的国家接纳和合并寻求庇护者;为了简单起见,我们假设只有两组本地居民:高收入本地人和低收入本地人。由于他们的社会偏爱,后者由于相对贫困而遭受了无用功。由于将寻求庇护者纳入主流劳动力,从而“从下方”纳入土著人口的收入分配减少了低收入原住民的相对匮乏,因此接纳和融入寻求庇护者可能具有社会效益。我们通过最大化考虑了这些因素的当地人的社会福利功能,得出寻求庇护者的最佳人数。我们发现,只要录取和整合的成本不是很高,这个数字就绝对是正数。然后,我们解决如何在几个接收国之间分配一定数量的寻求庇护者的问题。我们发现,与其按照每个国家的人口比例分配寻求庇护者,不如通过增加高收入本地人收入与低收入本地人收入之间的国内差异来实现总福利最大化。本地人。此外,我们制定了在最佳社会条件下接纳寻求庇护者的条件,而不是将收入从高收入本地人直接转移到低收入本地人的条件。然后,我们讨论如何在几个接收国之间分配一定数量的寻求庇护者的问题。我们发现,与其按照每个国家的人口比例来分配寻求庇护者,不如通过分配增加高收入本地人与低收入本地人之间的国内差异来实现总福利的最大化。本地人。此外,我们制定了在最佳社会条件下接纳寻求庇护者的条件,而不是将收入从高收入本地人直接转移到低收入本地人的条件。然后,我们讨论如何在几个接收国之间分配一定数量的寻求庇护者的问题。我们发现,与其按照每个国家的人口比例来分配寻求庇护者,不如通过分配增加高收入本地人与低收入本地人之间的国内差异来实现总福利的最大化。本地人。此外,我们制定了在最佳社会条件下接纳寻求庇护者的条件,而不是将收入从高收入本地人直接转移到低收入本地人的条件。通过在高收入原住民和低收入原住民的收入之间的国内差异增加的分配,将使总福利最大化。此外,我们制定了在最佳社会条件下接纳寻求庇护者的条件,而不是将收入从高收入本地人直接转移到低收入本地人的条件。通过在高收入原住民和低收入原住民的收入之间的国内差异增加的分配,将使总福利最大化。此外,我们制定了在最佳社会条件下接纳寻求庇护者的条件,而不是将收入从高收入本地人直接转移到低收入本地人的条件。
更新日期:2019-11-26
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