Empirical evidence suggests that increased democracy reduces pollution. Using a median-voter model (where a democratization reform typically changes the income of the median voter), we analyze how the effect of a change of the individual income differs from the effect of a change in the...

Abstract <p> This paper introduces age-based population heterogeneity in the Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992)model to improve measurement of aggregate labor and aggregate human capital. The estimation results are consistent with this model, and they indicate a hump-shaped and quantitatively important...</p>

Den 1 maj 2004 utvidgades EU med tio nya länder. Det är anledningen till att frågan om arbetskraftsinvandring har aktualiserats i den politiska debatten. <p> Syftet med denna artikel är att utifrån relevant teori analysera effekterna av arbetskraftsinvandring från de nya EU-länderna på...</p>

We augment the Stokey (1998) model by allowingagents to differ with respect to environmentalquality and income in order to analyze theimpact of income and environmental inequality,and of democratization on aggregate pollution.We find that the impact of a more equal incomedistribution depends on...