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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?
Börner, Kira Astrid; Übelmesser, Silke - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439388
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Migration and the Welfare State : The Economic Power of the Non-Voter?
Fuchs, Kira; Übelmesser, Silke - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318292
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Preferences for redistribution and international migration
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2018
towards redistribution than non-migrants. However, differences between migrants' and non-migrants' redistributive preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962844
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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?
Boerner, Kira; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261313
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Preferences for redistribution and international migration
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
Are migrants self-selected and sorted according to their views about what constitutes a fair level of redistribution? A … financial self-interest, we focus on emigrants' attitudes towards redistribution in Denmark where they no longer pay taxes or … views about what constitutes a fair level of redistribution among men, but not among women: the majority of men who emigrate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437549
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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?
Börner, Kira Astrid (contributor);  … - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003113320
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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?
Börner, Kira Astrid; Übelmesser, Silke - In: International tax and public finance 14 (2007) 1, pp. 93-111
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003407494
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Young Liberals and Old Conservatives - Inequality, Mobility and Redistribution
Muren, Astri - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784101
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Biased perceptions of income inequality and redistribution
Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - 2014
and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes - though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366191
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The income distribution of voters : a case study from Germany
Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - 2017
Although voter turnout in the 2013 general election to the German Bundestag differed considerably across income brackets, the income distribution of voters did not differ, in a statistically significant way, from that of the entire population. The non-uniform turnout, thus, is unlikely to affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624291