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 …

document a strong persistence of the effect. The initial migration shock changed the preferences for redistribution of the … forced migrants in West Germany after WWII. These migrants were poorer than the local population but had full voting rights … spending. Voting data suggests that these changes were partly driven by the immigrants' political influence. We further …

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 …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …

against income risks. But studies measuring redistribution often focus only on a one-year period. Using German SOEP data from …-individual component. Results show that annual inequality is higher than long-term inequality, but redistribution is also larger annually …. In the long-term, the German welfare state clearly gives priority to insurance over redistribution. This gets even more …

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …

redistribution. Finally, we show that redistribution and diversity are linked non-linearly: moderate levels of diversity impede … redistribution, while higher levels offset the negative effect. …