Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the role of income-inequality on the size of local government. Design/methodology/approach – First, the paper extends the model proposed by Meltzer and Richard, allowing for spatial interaction in the redistributive in-kind transfers from the local...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to decompose the effects of democracy and risk of expropriation on economic volatility. Design/methodology/approach – The authors follow Acemouglu et al. and use settler mortality in former colonies in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the role of income‐inequality on the size of local government. Design/methodology/approach – First, the paper extends the model proposed by Meltzer and Richard, allowing for spatial interaction in the redistributive in‐kind transfers from the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to decompose the effects of democracy and risk of expropriation on economic volatility. Design/methodology/approach – The authors follow Acemouglu et al. and use settler mortality in former colonies in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of skill differentiation between formal and informal labor markets. Design/methodology/approach – First, a theoretical model is developed under the assumption that concealment of production is increasingly costly for informal...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to characterize that the marginal social cost of public funds and to estimate the response of labor supply to these publicly provided goods, and simulate the marginal social cost of cash‐cum‐in‐kind transfers (MSCKT) for Brazil....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of skill differentiation between formal and informal labor markets. Design/methodology/approach – First, a theoretical model is developed under the assumption that concealment of production is increasingly costly for informal...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to characterize that the marginal social cost of public funds and to estimate the response of labor supply to these publicly provided goods, and simulate the marginal social cost of cash-cum-in-kind transfers (MSCKT) for Brazil....