Economic cycles affect both unemployment and the composition of employment, which can have an impact on the well-being of individuals if these changes in composition are involuntary or involve a decrease in the quality of employment. In this article, we study the relationship between economic...

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The No Show Paradox (there is a voter who would rather not vote) is known to affect every Condorcet voting function. This paper analyses a strong version of this paradox (there is a voter whose favorite candidate loses the election if she votes honestly, but gets elected if she abstains) in the...

The Young's Consistency property means that when some candidates are chosen as winners by two disjoint electorates, those and only those candidates are chosen in the aggregated electorate. We define two new properties requiring that, when a candidate x is elected in a situation and a new...