Emigration and fiscal gap in population-exporting region

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 19; no. 5; p. e0302928
• Main Authors: Li, Mei-Qi, Zhang, Yong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 07.05.2024; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; China; Earth Sciences; Economic aspects; Economic development; Economic impact; Economic research; Emigration; Emigration and Immigration; Engineering and Technology; Expenditures; Expenditures, Public; Exports; Fiscal policy; Humans; Hypotheses; Immigration; Literature reviews; Local government; Long term; Migration; Outflow; People and Places; Physical Sciences; Population; Population Dynamics; Public finance; Public services; Regions; Research and Analysis Methods; Revenue; Social Sciences; Tax rates; Tax revenues; Taxation; Taxes - economics; Verification; Widening; China

This paper analyzes how emigration impacts fiscal gap of population-exporting region in the long term. We construct a general equilibrium model of emigration and fiscal gap and make empirical verification using two-step system GMM model. Among the major lessons from this work, five general and strik...