Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35697 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4120
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
For patriotic citizens, living in their native country is intrinsically preferable compared to living in the diaspora. In this paper, we analyze the implications of such a patriotic lock-in in a world with international migration and redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main hypothesis: that countries with a more patriotic population should have higher redistributive taxes. Using ISSP survey data and combining them with OECD taxation data, we find robust evidence suggesting that a) higher patriotism is associated with higher tax burdens, and b) this relation is stronger for the upper-middle range of the income distribution.
Subjects: 
Patriotism
international mobility
taxation
redistribution
fiscal competition
JEL: 
H20
H73
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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