Showing 11 - 20 of 886,544
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/10010254027
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/10010484388
The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country’s economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023762
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895493
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/10010333980
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/10010427441
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/10005518257
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/10005785809
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289012
A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one out of three different models of the Welfare State characterized by different tax-and-transfer schemes. We reproduce a small society in the lab where: Subjects are grouped in three stylized classes (the rich, the middle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167864