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Fiscal Sustainability and Immigration in the Madrid Region
Author(s) -
Doncel Luis Miguel,
Durá Pedro,
Grau Pilar,
Sainz Jorge
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/imig.12004
Subject(s) - immigration , productivity , sustainability , welfare , fiscal sustainability , public welfare , order (exchange) , distribution (mathematics) , economics , social welfare , public economics , development economics , economic growth , political science , fiscal policy , macroeconomics , finance , market economy , law , biology , ecology , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The growing number of immigrants in the Madrid region raises several questions concerning the welfare of future native generations. The debates shift from increasing concern about the congestion of public services like education or healthcare, to how immigration helps to ease tension in relation to financing those services and other benefits to the region's general welfare. In order to evaluate the global effect, our analysis uses a generational accounting method which is applied to different productivity, interest rate and growth scenarios. The results show that the impact of immigrants is positive, with intergenerational distribution towards the currently most active taxpayers.