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The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security

Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2012

We study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries suggest that urbanization and industrializa- tion are associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe an OLG model in which demographics, technology, and...

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Eastern Enlargement of the EU: A Comprehensive Welfare Assessment

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

single market- induced migration from new to present member countries. I first use an analytical model to derive a welfare …

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Why don't labor and capital flow between young and old countries?

Calahorrano, Lena; an de Meulen, Philipp - 2009

endogenous policy constraints on both foreign direct investment and migration. Factor price differences between industrialized … and developing countries create economic incentives for migration to developed countries and for capital flows to less …

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Fiscal Federalism, Citizen-Candidate Mobility and Political Competition

Nastassine, Stanislav - 2005

This work consists of two parts. In the first part I analyze the influence of personal mobility on the citizens' willingness to run for a political office in their municipality and on the resulting local policy outcome. The model portrays heterogeneous policy preferences that are coupled with...

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Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit … equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents … generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be present not only for interest groups but also for ruling politicians and …

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