摘要:A number of recent contributions to the literature on migration have attempted to augment the traditional specification of the human capital model by including variables to account for fiscal incentives for migration. The underlying assumption is that migrants seek to maximize their lifetime consumption streams derived from both private and public goods where the latter is broadly defined to include both true public goods and publicly produced private goods. The failure to account for the provision of broadly defined public goods and the priee (tax rates) at which they are provided relative to other jurisdictions represents a serious omission in the analysis of migration, especially when significant differences in the fiscal capacity of regions exist.