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Local far-right demonstrations and nationwide public attitudes toward migration
Freitas Monteiro, Teresa; Prömel, Christopher - 2024
One of the primary objectives of protests and demonstrations is to bring social, political, or economic issues to the attention of politicians and the wider population. While protests can have a mobilizing and persuading effect, they may reduce support for their cause if they are perceived as a...
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Direct democracy, political delegation, and responsibility substitution
Prato, Carlo; Strulovici, Bruno - 2010
Can direct democracy provisions improve welfare over pure representative democracy? This paper studies how such provisions affect politicians' incentives and selection. While direct democracy allows citizens to correct politicians' mistakes, it also reduces the incentives of elected...
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Persistence and activation of right-wing political ideology
Cantoni, Davide; Hagemeister, Felix; Westcott, Mark - 2019
We argue that a long-run cultural persistence of right-wing ideology can explain the recent rise of right-wing populism. Shifts in the supply of party platforms can interact with this existing demand, and give rise to patterns of historical persistence. We study the context of Germany in the...
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Income Misperception and Populism
Albers, Thilo Nils Hendrik; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022
We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...
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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence From Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...
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Do party positions affect the public's policy preferences?
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019
The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...
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Do Unemployment Benefits Promote or Hinder Structural Change?
Boeri, Tito; Macis, Mario - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and structural change. Unlike previous work assessing the …
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Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration
Kuhn, Peter J.; McAusland, Carol - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers tastes exhibit a form of home bias...
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Malaria and Chinese economic activities in Africa
Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; Sunde, Uwe; Yuan, Song - 2022
We present novel evidence for the influence of malaria exposure on the geographic location of Chinese economic activities in Africa. The hypothesis is based on the observation that many Chinese aid projects and infrastructure contractors rely on Chinese personnel. High malaria exposure might...
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Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or "informal" sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...
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