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To Farms or Cities: An Historical Tension Between Canada and Its Immigrants: by Harold Troper; For much of Canadian history, particularly during the critical era of mass migration that straddled the decades of the turn of the century, the government may have welcomed immigrants with an open...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: May 2001 More

Immigrant Workers in Rural and Agricultural Areas: by Philip Martin; Western US agriculture is an industry that has shaped and been shaped by a peculiar labor policy: the most numerous seasonal workers were assumed to be outsiders who would not remain employed in the...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: May 2001 More

Back to the West: The Reintegration of the Baltic Countries to the European Union and Other Western Structures: by Erkki Huittinen; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: May 2001 More

Immigrant Success and the Expansion of Education in American and Canadian Cities, 1970-1990: by Jeffrey G. Reitz; This research examines how the expansion of education, and its changing role in labor markets, has shaped employment experiences of newly–arriving immigrants to American and Canadian cities over...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: May 2001 More

The Skills of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States: by Heather Antecol; Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants appear to have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. female...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: April 2001 More

Federalism and Democracy: Self-Enforcing Equilibria: by Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Barry R. Weingast; How are constitutional rules sustained? The general problem concerns how to structure the political game so that all the players – elected officials, the military, economic actors, and citizens...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: March 2001 More

Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities: by Alesina, Alberto; La Ferrara, Eliana; The poor favor redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today's poor into tomorrow's rich and since redistributive policies do not change often,...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: March 2001 More

Self-Enforcing Federalism: by Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Barry R. Weingast; How are constitutional rules sustained? The general problem concerns how to structure the political game so that all the players – elected officials, the military, economic actors, and citizens...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: March 2001 More

Inequality, Social Insurance and Redistribution: by Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein; Is the political support for welfare policy higher or lower in less egalitarian societies? We answer the question using a model of welfare policy as publicly financed insurance that pays benefits in...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: January 2001 More

Redistributing Income under Proportional Representation: by David Austen-Smith; Although majoritarian decision rules are the norm in legislatures, relatively few democracies use simple majority rule at the electoral stage, adopting instead some form of multiparty proportional...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: December 2000 More