Evaluating the effects of taxing the remittances of skilled workers on capital accumulation and aggregate income using an overlapping generations model1

• Main Author: Rivera, John Paolo R.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Emigrant remittances—Taxation > Philippines; Foreign workers, Filipino—Taxation; Economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3770
• Institution: De La Salle University

Labor migration has sizable economic impacts specifically to labor-sending countries such as the Philippines, which can alter the economy's production structure and redirect the country's comparative advantage. The exodus of highly trained professionals, without replacement, will lead to b...