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International migration, transfers of norms and public goods back home

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2023

Jan Brzozowski Open the ORCID record for Jan Brzozowski [Opens in a new window]  and
Nicola Daniele Coniglio Open the ORCID record for Nicola Daniele Coniglio [Opens in a new window]
Jan Brzozowski
Affiliation:
Faculty of International and Political Studies, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Nicola Daniele Coniglio*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Finance, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Corresponding author: Nicola Daniele Coniglio; Email: nicoladaniele.coniglio@uniba.it
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Abstract

International migration represents a potential channel for the transmission of norms, attitudes, and values back to the home countries. In this paper, we explore how international migration affects tax morale and aversion to the free-riding of members of the household left behind in the home country. We use a rich longitudinal household-level database on Polish society (period 2007–2015) that allows us to observe social attitudes and values of individuals before and after the actual migration of a member of the household. We find that having a migrant in the household has a significant and positive effect on tax morale and increases aversion toward free-riding of stayers. We also find that migrants have a lower level of tax morale before departure compared to stayers, suggesting that international migration leads to an overall gain in pro-social behaviors.

Keywords

international migrationsocial remittancestransfer of normstax moralefree ridingD83F22F24H26P20Z10
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Research Paper
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Journal of Demographic Economics , First View , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain 2023

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