We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …

This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first … is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy. Both the size of public employment and the level of …