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ISSN:: 1018-5941

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Volume/Issue:: 1998/165
Series:: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):: Efraim Sadka, and Assaf Razin
Publisher:: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Published Date:: December 1998
DOI:: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451980011.001
ISBN:: 9781451980011
ISSN:: 1018-5941
Page:: 14

Migrants, being relatively low earners, are net beneficiaries of the welfare state. However, this paper uses a dynamic model to show that because of migrants’ positive influence on the pension system, which is an important pillar of any welfare state, migration could be beneficial to all income (high and low) and age (old and young) groups.

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