predictions about the policy outcome. I adopt a new equilibrium concept for voting models to analyse the endogenous relationship … migration. …

welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …

West German population, but unlike most international migrants they had full voting rights and were eligible for social …, we show that local governments responded to this migration shock with selective and persistent tax raises as well as … effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially …

utilitarian-optimal to use a linear voting rule: votes get alternativedependent weights, and a default obtains if the weighted sum …

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … changes into growth and redistribution components revealed that the growth component dominates the redistribution component in …

parliament (MPs) and including attendance rates in voting sessions for the first time. For the parliament elected in 2009, I show …

investigates the ways in which international student migration relates to trade. Unlike other immigrants, international students …