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Based on theoretical models of budget-balanced social insurance and individual choice, we argue that in addition to the well-known empathy mechanism whereby ethnic heterogeneity undermines sentiments of solidarity among a citizenry to reduce welfare generosity, population heterogeneity affects...
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spending. In the full sample 1971–2008, changes and cuts were driven by the structural pressures of unemployment and trade …
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This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of...
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I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of attitudes in a joint empirical framework. Using migration data...
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The study of welfare capitalism is concerned with a founding question of political economy, namely how capitalism and democracy can be combined. Ever since the publication of Esping-Andersen's Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in 1990, the answer was sought in identifying ideal types of welfare...
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and analyzing the factors like world politics, the entry of globalization, shifting trade patterns and even culture … with. The discussion traces the globalization of food security as a product of discursive processes. By putting together …
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This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector. Economic factors can be summarized by the infant industry argument and we expect industries which are relatively efficient compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels...
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-controlled areas the introduction of the separatist control and the introduction of the second round of the trade ban, which was … Luhansk region according to the preferred specifications. At the same time, the trade ban of the year 2017 against the major … industrial enterprises of the separatist-controlled areas decreased luminosity by 20%. The paper argues that the trade …
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the unequal transregional entanglements, in particular concerning commodity trade, alongside with the imperial economic …
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policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which incomes depend importantly on trade in dirty goods, where income … interacts with the pollution costs and income benefits of trade in dirty goods to further polarize interests concerning both … environmental stringency and the regulation of trade openness. In this context, we show how the eco-friendliness ranking of …
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