Internal migration and fiscal capacity of local authorities: A case study of the Greater Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, 1985-97

Asher Vaturi; Boris A. Portnov; Moshe Schwartz

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Internal migration and fiscal capacity of local authorities: A case study of the Greater Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, 1985-97

Asher Vaturi
, Boris A. Portnov
, Moshe Schwartz

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management

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Abstract

Using the Greater Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area as a case study, this paper studies the interaction between intrametropolitan migration and the fiscal capacity of local authorities. The analysis concludes that municipalities with high resident out-migration generate higher per capita incomes than migrant-recipient municipalities. This paradoxical situation may be due to the fact that non-residential land uses yield higher local taxes than residential ones.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	61-85
Number of pages	25
Journal	Space and Polity
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13562570410001678833
State	Published - Apr 2004

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In this case, out-migration has caused central municipalities to cut expenditures, thus lowering service levels, and to raise taxes on remaining residents and businesses (Ben-Ilia, 2001).1 ‘Equalisation’ grants from the central government have also been sought, but the financial support provided by the central government has declined sharply (Wildasin, 1991; Hecht and Konin, 2001). Central-city residents and businesses are burdened with additional taxes spurring further out-migration, undermining the metropolitan tax-base and generating a vicious circle: as the central city’s population shrinks, services decline while tax burdens increase (Bailey, 1999).

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