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) y9 R# f( E! E9 L公仔箱論壇香港終審法院的估計是,讓來港未滿7年的新移民申領綜援,只會為政府帶來微不足道的財政負擔。按2001至2002年的 標準,給予新移民綜援只需7億元左右。7億元的估計數字是多是少近日在香港引起不少爭議,但我認為除了政府未來對綜援開支的承擔能力,更重要的問題是如何令社會改變「綜援養懶人」的觀感。不能再學90年代的美國政府減少對新移民的福利資助,港府只有兩個選擇:其一,取回單程證審批權,並優先處理經濟條件較好的申請人;其二,改革綜援制度,增加豁免計算工作入息來減低綜援隱性稅對工作熱誠的不良影響。前者政治上有難度,後者經濟上成本高。但假如後者令福利開 支大增,一日真的把政府推向財赤邊緣,到時的政治環境已是不可同日而語了。( Z- n% \# w. o8 d/ V( j" U* r! i
1 Y4 c5 K/ S) q' `- F$ s2 y P公仔箱論壇 d$ d; ?( i1 W7 u9 T: {5 uTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。註1:原文為 "Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914and free immigration is a bad thing today? … Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence,regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing."TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。5 @' B* {6 S/ z: s
註2:Borjas,George J. "Welfare Reform, Labor Supply, and Health Insurance in the Immigrant Population." Journal of Health Economics. 22(6), November2003: 933-958. % ~8 h8 U' |5 j公仔箱論壇 - ]3 X" m% e0 u7 R3 ?6 YTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。 N7 ^6 i; ? E8 ^' n6 h0 |tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb作者為克林信大學經濟系副教授 , U0 z2 N7 m4 P# v5 p5 m, x1 o香港理工大學會計及金融學院客座副教授