family structures and migration. Living standards increased for all groups, but social benefits rose less than earned income … redistribution. Migrant settlement and integration need to be better coordinated and adapted to individual starting points. The …

state: redistribution between rich and poor, young and old, employed and unemployed, resident of different regions, and … for rent extraction by politicians, redistribution and public goods provision …

We study theoretically and empirically the redistributive effects of extending voting rights to non-citizens. Our model … Swedish electoral reform that extended voting rights to non-citizens in municipal elections. In the first term after the …

of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind the substantial … literature that identifies relative deprivation as an important determinant of migration behavior, we study the relationship … between aggregate or total relative deprivation, TRD, the Gini coefficient, G, and migration. We show that for a given change …

of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind the substantial … literature that identifies relative deprivation as an important determinant of migration behavior, we study the relationship … between aggregate or total relative deprivation, TRD, the Gini coefficient, G, and migration. We show that for a given change …

fertility in explaining the generosity of redistribution and education policies in the U.S. Policies are endogenised as outcomes … of majority voting. I find that accounting for endogenous fertility is essential for strong performance of the model in …

impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show … rotating agenda setting, a taxpayer-protection rule and repeated voting. The latter rule makes vote buying prohibitively costly. …

This paper studies electoral competition in a model of redistributive politics with deterministic voting and …, consequently, the level of inequality in utilities generated by a party's equilibrium redistribution schedule is increasing in the …