May 2021
Does immigration increase inequality in host countries?
Hippolyte d’Albis*, Ekrame Boubtane* and Dramane Coulibaly
The OECD countries are the main host countries of immigrants, who represent nearly 15% of the total resident populations. In the past few years, the contribution of immigrants to demographic growth has increased significantly. Natural increase (the difference between births and deaths) is traditionally higher than net migration...
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A representative voting system: Approval Voting
François Durand, Antonin Macé* and Matías Núñez
How can we organise elections so as to end up with a winner who represents most closely the voters’ preferences? While majority rule seems like the best way to decide between two candidates, the choice of voting rules becomes trickier when it comes to deciding between three or more candidates. In this article, the authors compare two main voting rules...
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Gendered migration responses to drought in Malawi
Luis Becerra-Valbuena and Katrin Millock*
In poor countries with populations that are very dependent on agriculture, the impact of extreme weather events can be severe. If safety nets or other transfers do not exist, marriage of under-age daughters could be used as a coping strategy of poor families. A nascent literature in development economics has studied how different marriage institutions...
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Does globalisation reduce capital taxation?
Hippolyte d’Albis* and Agnès Bénassy-Quéré*
In high-income countries, corporate tax rates have been substantially reduced since the 1990s. One common explanation for this is the tax competition that states engage in order to attract foreign investment. Financial globalisation leads governments to lower the tax load on capital and to shift the burden of public expenditure onto to other factors...
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Does Holding Elections during a Covid-19 Pandemic Put the Lives of Politicians at Risk?
Laurent Bach, Arthur Guillouzouic and Clément Malgouyres*
The successive waves of the Covid-19 pandemic have forced most of the planet to stop any non-essential activity involving large groups of people until disease transmission is eventually controlled. Whether one should consider elections an essential activity in this context has become a matter of intense debates leading to dramatically different decisions across the globe...
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