Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36760 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4906
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In 1994 a limit on the growth of property values for tax purposes was imposed in Michigan. One consequence of the newly imposed assessment growth cap was an emerging differential in tax prices between potential new property owners and long-time property owners. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of this growing tax price differential on migration patterns. Using county level data on migration activity over the 1994-2006 period, we present evidence that differential tax prices resulting from the assessment growth cap have reduced in-migration.
Subjects: 
Property tax
tax base erosion
regional migration
Michigan
JEL: 
H71
H73
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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