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Per una storia della Congrega della Carità Apostolica di Brescia, 1, Il mercato dell'incertezza: pratiche sociali e finanziarie viste attraverso la lente di una grande confraternita urbana
In: Per una storia della Congrega della Carità Apostolica di Brescia 1
La forma della cura: tecniche socio e psicodrammatiche nella formazione degli operatori educativi e della cura
In: Psicoterapie 215
La rivoluzione incompiuta: società politica e cultura in Italia da Dante a Machiavelli
In: Biblioteca Aragno
Machiavelli rivoluzionario: vita e opere
In: Frecce 1
No country for young people? The rise of anti-immigration politics in ageing societies
In: Journal of public economics, Volume 238, p. 105199
ISSN: 1879-2316
No Country for Young People? The Rise of Anti-Immigration Politics in Ageing Societies
In: University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 14/WP/2022
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The political economy of public education
In: Research in economics: Ricerche economiche, Volume 73, Issue 1, p. 35-52
ISSN: 1090-9451
The political economy of immigration and population ageing
I investigate the effects of population ageing on immigration policies. Voters' attitude towards immigrants depends on how the net gains from immigration are divided up in the society by the fiscal policy. In the theoretical literature this aspect is treated as exogenous to the political process because of technical constraints. This generates inconsistent predictions about the policy outcome. I adopt a new equilibrium concept for voting models to analyse the endogenous relationship between immigration and fiscal policies and solve this apparent inconsistency. I show that the elderly and the poor have a common interest in limiting immigration and in increasing public spending. This exacerbates the effects of population ageing on public finances and results in a high tax burden on working age individuals and further worsens the age profile of the population. Moreover, I show that if the share of elderly population is suffciently large, then a society is unambiguously harmed by the tightening in the immigration policy caused by the demographic change. The implications of the model are consistent with the patterns observed in UK attitudinal data and in line with the findings of the empirical literature about migration.
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