We are motivated by the unique migration experience of Israel of a supply-side shock triggering skilled immigration and … the concurrent decline in welfare-state redistribution. This paper develops a model, which can provide an explanation for … the mechanism through which a supply-side shock triggering high-skill migration can also reshape the political …

more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter …

seems to be the case in real life? A simple redistribution model shows that the persistence of poverty imposes fairly strong … problem and then to use redistribution to reduce it significantly. There is no direct incentive to eliminate poverty, however …