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How robust is majority voting as a social choice rule?
(2014)
This article strengthens existing analysis concerning the effectiveness of majority rule. It demonstrates a one-to-one equivalence between the basic issue of social choice theory (the problem of selection of a well-functioning ...
Guest worker programs: A theoretical analysis of welfare of the host and source countries*
(2013)
This article examines the interaction between migration policies of the host and source countries in the context of a model of guest-worker migration. For the host, the objective is to provide low-cost labor for its employers ...
Failure to launch? The role of land inequality in transition delays
(2013)
This paper provides empirical support for one theory of transition delays: initial land inequality. Using a new historical dataset for land inequality (Frankema, 2009) we employ duration analysis to investigate whether ...