inequality. Our results show significantly higher levels of income inequality in regions with a higher presence of oligarchs … across the Russian regions, we test Acemoglu's (2008) proposition that oligarchic societies experience extreme income …

authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German … depends strongly on local labor market conditions, with strong impacts in regions with high unemployment. Similarly, we find …

This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional … use a panel data set of country-level re- gional inequalities, which covers 56 countries (835 subnational regions) between … subnational regions). Conflict is measured by the incidence of civil war (UCDP/PRIO data) and a risk measure of internal conflict …

capital in order to foster economic development, albeit FDI might increase regional inequality since the many different … regions of a country usually do not receive FDI in equal measure. A conflict emerges between efficiency and redistribution … increase regional inequality in low and middle income countries, while there are no negative redistributional consequences in …

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance … redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income …

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non …-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives' expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …

With the rise of the far-right parties in the European parliamentary elections, concerns over immigration and national … identity have again come into the limelight. In this paper, we document the empirical relationships between immigration, native … concerns over the economic and cultural impact of immigration, and the rise of right-wing political parties in Europe …

state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …