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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers : When is Brain Drain Beneficial?

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; McAusland, Carol - 2021

, remittances, return migration, or an emigration lottery. Instead, they are driven purely by the public nature of knowledge goods …We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish … between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a …

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Convergence and divergence in dynamic voting with inequality

Di Guilmi, Corrado; Galanis, Giorgos - 2020 - Updated November 2020

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South-South migration and elections : evidence from post-apartheid South Africa

Bedasso, Biniam Egu; Jaupart, Pascal - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/15, pp. 1-47

Little is known about the political consequences of immigration in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we estimate the effect of exposure to immigration on election outcomes in South Africa. Our analysis is based on municipality panel data and an instrumental variable (IV) strategy exploiting...

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Populism and the skill-content of globalization : evidence from the last 60 years

Docquier, Frédéric; Guichard, Lucas; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2022

We analyze the long-run evolution of populism and explore the role of globalization in shaping such evolution. We use an imbalanced panel of 628 national elections in 55 countries over 60 years. A ﬁrst novelty is our reliance on both standard (e.g., the ”volume margin”, or vote share of...

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Income inequality and the welfare state : how redistributive is the public sector?

Obst, Thomas - 2013

This paper explores the nexus between the phenomenon of increasing income inequality and redistributive effects of the public sector. In an empirical analysis of seven OECD countries the redistributive effect will be examined by measuring the difference between inequality of market incomes and...

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Egalitarian redistribution in the era of hyper-globalization

Grimalda, Gianluca; Trannoy, Alain; Filgueira, Fernando; … - In: Review of social economy : the journal for the … 78 (2020) 2, pp. 151-184

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Building political consensus and distributing resources : a trade-off or a compatible choice?

Feng, Yi; Gizelis, Theodora-Ismene - In: Economic development and cultural change 51 (2002) 1, pp. 217-236

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Turning out for redistribution : the effect of voter turnout on top marginal tax rates

Sabet, Navid - 2016

government redistribution to be a function of the income of the median voter. Because turnout has fallen drastically in the …

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(Dis)honesty and the value of transparency for campaign promises

Lang, Matthias; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

Promise competition is prevalent in many economic environments, but promise keeping is often difficult to observe. We study the value of transparency for promise competition and ask whether promises still offer an opportunity to honor future obligations when outcomes do not allow for observing...

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Emigration and Regime Stability : Explaining the Persistence of Cuban Socialism

Hoffmann, Bert - 2012

The 'Cuban safety-valve theory' explains sustained survival of Cuban socialism in part through the high levels of … emigration, following Hirschman's model of 'exit' undermining 'voice'. The article argues that this remains insufficient in two … the Cuban state's capacity to rein in uncontrolled emigration and to reassure its 'gatekeeper role'. In addition, the …

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