Migration States and Welfare States: Why Is America Different from Europe?

Assaf Razin is the Barbara and Steve Friedman Professor of International Economics at Cornell University, USA, and Professor Emeritus of Tel-Aviv University, Israel.   Efraim Sadka is Henry Kaufman Professor of International Capital Markets, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

• 1. Introduction 2. Welfare State 3. Migration State 4. Free versus Controlled Migration: Analytics 5. Free versus Controlled Migration: Migration 6. Principles of International Taxation 7. Intra-Union Competition 8. Intra-Union Coordination 9. Competition versus Coordination: the U.S. and the EU 10. Aging and Migration: the U.S. and the EU 11. Is the Net Fiscal Burden a Proper Predictor of the Political Attitude towards Migration 12. Conclusion