Sachs, Dominik Colas, Mark <br/><br/>
The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration 

 -  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy  2024 
 - 515-550 
<br/><br/> Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on resident wages and labor supply. We operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in a model of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions for this effect in terms of estimable statistics. An empirical quantification for the United States reveals an indirect fiscal benefit for one average low-skilled immigrant of roughly  
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>1945-7731 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Immigrant Workers, Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition<br/> includes inheritance and gift taxes, State and Local Government: Health<br/> Labor Productivity, Geographic Labor Mobility<br/> Non-labor Discrimination, Human Capital<br/>Economics<br/>Education