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| Author: | Roemer, J.E. Straeten, K. van der |
| Title: | The political economy of xenophobia and distribution: the case of Denmark |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Economics
2006 : VOL. 108:2, p. 251-277 |
| Index terms: | political economy equilibrium analysis discrimination public sector case studies Scandinavia Nordic countries Denmark |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper represents political (hereafter as: pol.) competition in Denmark as taking place over two issues, that is, 1. the size of the public sector (here as: p-s.) and 2. immigration. Pol. equilibrium (as: eql.) is modeled using the party unanimity Nash eql. (or PUNE) concept generating eql. on multi-dimensional policy spaces. By fitting the model to Danish data, it is argued that citizen xenophobia may be expected to decrease the size of the Danish p-s. by an amount from 12 to 36 percent of one standard deviation of the probability distribution of citizens' ideal points of the p-s. size. |
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