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 …

towards redistribution than non-migrants. However, differences between migrants' and non-migrants' redistributive preferences …

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 …

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 …

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 …

therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can … in Poland that have experienced large emigration following the accession to the European Union in 2004 are characterised …

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution, both the welfare-magnet effect from more redistributive countries and the propensity of the high-skilled to settle in … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …

We investigate the consequences of redistribution policy on migration and trade in a Standard two-good Heckscher …-Ohlin framework. With free trade and factor price equalization, abolishing migration barriers is redundant. With the introduction of … higher transfers. We show that in such a world, free migration increases the bürden of the welfare program in the rieh …