redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from … Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political … relies on the quasi-experimental context studied and on the differential effects arising from the fact that emigration was …

share of assets and housing value accumulated in the home country are larger for immigrants who consider their migration as … characteristics, we find no evidence that immigrants with temporary migration plans save more than immigrants with permanent migration …

This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals … inequality which they perceive to exist. The empirical analysis also shows that the demand for redistribution is strongly … associated not only with variables describing self-interested motives for redistribution, but also with perceptions of and social …

redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in … Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …-in-differences strategy for identification. We find clear evidence of prospective pocketbook voting. Voters respond to campaign promises but …