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Do unions promote members' electoral office holding? Evidence from correlates of state legislatures' occupational shares

Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012

outcomes and in politics through lobbying, campaign contributions, and voter mobilization, this work adds a new perspective on …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - 2003

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

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Lobbying, corruption and other banes

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …

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Redistributive politics and market efficiency: an experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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Patterns in State Funding of Public Higher Education: Demography, Ideology, Educational Attainment, and Trends

Glomm, Gerhard; Raghav, Manu - 2024

The affordability of public higher education and, by extension, public higher education funding, is an important concern to prospective students and their parents as well as to policymakers. Our study examines the allocation of constant dollar per-student state appropriations across four-year or...

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Do Elections Affect Immigration? Evidence From French Municipalities

Schmutz, Benoît; Verdugo, Gregory - 2023

Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants across municipalities. In municipalities where a left- instead of right-wing mayor has been elected, the share of immigrants in the population grows faster by 1.5 p.p. within six...

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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

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Efficiency Properties of Labor Taxation in a Spatial Model of Restricted Labor Mobility

Guggenberger, Patrik; Kaul, Ashok; Kolmar, Martin - 2001

We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient allocation of labor and properties of a decentralized equilibrium. An efficient allocation of labor...

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Income taxes, property values and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may...

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Does immigration induce 'native flight' from public schools? Evidence from a large scale voucher program

Gerdes, Christer - 2010

Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper...

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