Delayed Integration of Mobile Labor: A Principle for Coordinating Taxation, Social Security, and Social Assistance

Delayed Integration is a rule for assigning mobile individuals to jurisdictions for the purpose of taxation, social security, and social assistance. It is a compromise between the Origin Principle and the Employment Principle. Individuals are assigned to the jurisdiction to which they move only after a coordinated period of transition. The paper discusses the merits and shortcomings of such an assignment rule.