This paper investigates the impact of emigration on the political choice regarding the size of the welfare state …. Mobility has two countervailing effects: the political participation effect and the tax base effect. With emigration, the … political majority has to take into account that emigration reduces tax revenues and thereby affects the feasible set of …

therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can … in Poland that have experienced large emigration following the accession to the European Union in 2004 are characterised …

This paper examines the effects of a unilateral reform of the redistribution policy in an economy open to international …-reforming trading partner, the unilateral redistribution policy reform resembles a unilateral increase in trade costs leading to a …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …

influences the succeeding education policy. More surprisingly, the prospect of voting on education policy also affects the … the two-dimensional heterogeneity of the citizens shapes the voting equilibrium in our setting with sequential voting. …

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study … administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a reduction in ethnic voting when administrative regions become less …

The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … inequality. We also examine the effect of the length of electoral periods on redistribution and welfare for different groups and … allow for majority voting on the length of electoral periods. Finally, we extend the model to encompass retirement and baby …

conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …