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 …

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 …

explanation for the poor empirical support encountered by political economy models of income redistribution. It shows that … platforms, and vote-seeking political parties should take this into account: as a consequence, redistribution will generally be …, an increase in inequality will not unambigously increase redistribution. Finally, introducing endogenous information may …

In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I …

This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of origin among those who stay in a welfare … increasing income redistribution, while majority of women supports it. Women are somewhat more positive towards redistribution … redistribution are driven by beliefs about the determinants of individual success, generalized trust, assimilation to the new home …

This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of originamong those who stay in a welfare … increasing incomeredistribution, while majority of women supports it. Women are somewhat more positivetowards redistribution also … redistribution are driven bybeliefs about the determinants of individual success, generalized trust, assimilation tothe new home …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we nd that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters than … with our theory. …

I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing … recognized by all agents. I then use the framework to reassess the relationship between inequality and redistribution. The model … shows that, even though each contribution has a negligible impact, the interaction between contributions and voting leads to …

We endow individuals that differ in skill levels and tastes for working with altruistic preferences for redistribution … in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy … the lazy, we show that lower levels of redistribution emerge in political equilibrium. We provide empirical evidence …

I study to what extent voters are forward looking and how future income affects <p> the voting decision. Particularly … permanent income, transitory income has no explanatory power on voting behaviour, supporting the hypothesis of forward looking … voting. As expected, a high expected permanent income leads to Conservative voting and a low income to Socialist voting. …