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 …

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures 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 …

several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … no robust effect on far-left voting. The increased support for far-right candidates is driven by low educated immigrants …

In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran … political support for distributive policies. The main correlates for support of redistribution are the beliefs concerning the …

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 …

We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the …

I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of … income. While tax competition limits the extent to which redistribution is possible-as compared to the closed-economy outcome …

-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that witnessed a Nazi influx exhibit significantly higher voting shares for …

. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but …