The Role of Immigration in Sustaining the Social Security System: A Political Economy Approach



same population growth rate as the native-born population does. The number
of young native-born individuals at period
t :


Lt = Lt-1(1 + n) + γt-1Lt-1 (1 + m)


(5)


In addition, immigrants are also assumed to contribute to, or benefit from,
the social security system in the same way as the native-born. Because the social
security system redistributes income from the young to the old, the balanced
government budget constraint implies:


bt+1Lt(1 + γt) = τ t+1wt+1lt+1Lt+1(1 + γt+1)               (6)


Re-arranging the expression yields:


bt+1 =


τ t+ιwt+ιlt+ι[(1 + n) + Yt(1 + m)](1 + Yt+1)


(1 + γt)


(7)


Labor-leisure decisions of young individuals are derived, as usual, from utility
maximization, taking the prices and policy choices as given:


ltΨ = wt (1 - τt)


(8)


Substituting for bt , bt+1and lt in equations (7) and (8) into equation (1), the
indirect utility functions of the young individual can be written as:


Ψ

Vy(wttt+1,wt+1) = Log[ψ+1 wtlt(1 - τt)] +


(9)


such that,


βLog[


τt+ιwt+ιlt+ι [1 + n + γt (1 + m)](1 + γt+ι)
(1+
Yt)


ltΨ = wt (1 - τt)
l
tΨ+1 = wt+1 (1 - τt+1)


(10)

(11)


Substituting for bt in equations (7) into equation (2), yields the indirect utility
functions of the old individual:


V o(bt) =


τ twtlt[(1+ n)+ γt-1(1 + m)](1 + γt)
(1+ Y
t-1)


(12)


Note that the old individual prefers that the immigration quotas will be as
large as possible, because more immigration would raise the total amount of tax



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