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Direct and indirect impact of federal transfer to individuals and to the government of Puerto Rico

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  • Ángel Luis Ruiz Mercado

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La Junta de Planificación de Puerto Rico clasifica las transferencias individuales en dos categorías: "transferencias devengadas" y "transferencias concedidas¿. El propósito de este trabajo es estimar los efectos económicos directos e indirectos de las transferencias federales y de otros tipos a Puerto Rico por medio de dos modelos de insumo-producto y dos vectores con base en los coeficientes empleo e ingreso de las tablas para los anos 1992 y 2002. Los efectos económicos se estimaron para tres indicadores económicos a saber, la producción bruta, el empleo directo e indirecto y los salarios directos e indirectos. Los resultados presentados en este trabajo muestran que el argumento de que los puertorriquenos disfrutan de complementos de renta relativamente generosos y jubilaciones, sin imponer pesadas cargas impositivas sobre los trabajadores altamente remunerados, no era diferente a la mayoría de los pagos de transferencias a las personas que se encontraban en la categoría de transferencias devengadas. Es dudoso que este tipo de transferencias "pesadas cargas impositivas" sean impuestas a los contribuyentes estadounidenses. Ya que somos una economía abierta, la mayor parte de los ingresos generados por las transferencias que las personas gastan en bienes y servicios, gran cantidad proviene de Estados Unidos. También es dudoso que las transferencias devengadas de las personas (especialmente las transferencias por concepto de pensiones y los pagos a los veteranos) tuvieron un impacto significativo en la tasa de participación de la fuerza de trabajo o en los incentivos al trabajo.******The Puerto Rico Planning Board classifies individual transfer payments into two categories: ¿earned transfers¿ and ¿granted¿ transfers. The purpose of this work is to estimate the direct and indirect economic effects of federal and other transfer payments to Puerto Rico using two input-output models and two vectors of employment and income coefficients base on tables for years 1992 and 2002. The economic impacts were estimated for three economic indicators namely, gross output, direct and indirect employment and direct and indirect wage income. The results presented in this work shows that the argument that Puerto Ricans enjoy relatively generous income supplements and retirement benefits without imposing heavy tax burdens on highly compensated workers failed to distinguish that most of the transfer payments to individuals were in the category of earned transfers. It is doubtful that this type of transfer ¿impose heavy tax burdens¿ to American taxpayers. Since we are an open economy most of the income generated by transfer to individuals is spent of goods and services a substantial amount of which comes from United States. It is also doubtful that earned transfer to individuals (especially transfers in the form of pensions and payments to veterans) have any significant impact on the labor force participation rate or the incentives to work.

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  • Ángel Luis Ruiz Mercado, 2013. "Direct and indirect impact of federal transfer to individuals and to the government of Puerto Rico," Revista Finanzas y Politica Economica, Universidad Católica de Colombia, vol. 5(2), pages 37-55, December.
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    1. Arthur Macewan and Angel Ruiz, "undated". "Washington Dollars and the Puerto Rican Economy: Amounts, Impacts, Alternatives," Working Papers 10, University of Massachusetts Boston, Economics Department.
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      Keywords

      Puerto Rico; transferencias devengadas; transferencias concedidas; flujo de fondos; el análisis input-output; los impactos directos e indirectos; los incentivos al trabajo; la baja tasa de participación en la fuerza laboral.******Keywords: Puerto Rico; earned transfers; granted transfers; flow of funds; input-output analysis; direct and indirect impacts; incentives to work; low labor force participation rate.;
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      JEL classification:

      • H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
      • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
      • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
      • O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
      • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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