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suggesting that it can. The article analyses party opposition to and support for trade openness, European Union integration and … inequality tends to increase anti-globalization positions of parties, net of pro-globalization positions, an effect that does not … significantly differ across party families or levels of actual globalization. This effect, however, does depend on, and is …
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It has been argued that the notion of a European social model is misleading and that there are in fact different European social models with different features and different performances in terms of efficiency and equity. In this paper, we look at the welfare state from a political economy point...
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This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...
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This paper seeks to explain the significant variations in the social contract observed across nations. It shows how countries with similar technologies and preferences, as well as equally democratic political systems, can sustain very different average and marginal tax rates. Similarly, it...
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The debate about Basic Income (BI) has hitherto been preoccupied with questions of desirability. To correct this imbalance and to throw light on the problems of winning political support for BI, this article considers whether BI is viable. At this stage, the exercise is necessarily speculative,...
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The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country’s economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyse these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the interdependencies between trade and environment policies, as they … industry lobbying on both trade and the environment policies at the political equilibrium is the focus of the paper. Design … in view of the free trade agreements. Or, a sequential game is modeled where environment policy is set to maximize social …
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The 2002 southern African famine marked a new phase in the long-standing trade war between the United States and the …
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We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …
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find support for several of the model's predictions including: (i) tariff commitments in trade agreements increase the …
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