We provide novel and comprehensive evidence on the net fiscal contributions of natives and migrants to the governmental budgets of EU countries. We account for income taxes and cash benefits, along with indirect taxes and in-kind benefits, which are often missing in standard datasets. We find that on average, migrants were net contributors to public finances over the period of 2014–2018 in the EU and, moreover, that they contribute approximately €1.5 thousand more per capita each year than natives. We also show that this difference is partly due to the selection on characteristics that make migrants net fiscal contributors, such as demographic factors and employment probability.

我们提供了关于当地人和移民对欧盟国家政府预算的净财政贡献的新颖而全面的证据。我们考虑了所得税和现金福利，以及标准数据集中经常缺失的间接税和实物福利。我们发现，平均而言，移民在 2014 年至 2018 年期间是欧盟公共财政的净贡献者，而且，他们每年的人均贡献比当地人多约 1500 欧元。我们还表明，这种差异部分是由于对使移民成为净财政贡献者的特征的选择造成的，例如人口因素和就业概率。