Agenda

29 Mag 2019 12:30

Giovanni Facchini - Are political and economic integration intertwined?

Meeting Room 1, Campus San Giobbe, Venezia

Speaker: Giovanni Facchini, University of Nottingham, University of Milan
with Bernt Bratsberg, Tommaso Frattini and Anna Rosso

Abstract

Economic incentives play a key role in the decision to run for office, but little is known about their impact on the self-selection of immigrants into candidacy. We study this question by developing a simple forward-looking Roy model, in which an individual decides whether to become a candidate by trading off labour market earnings against the expected gains from a political career. As the return to labour market experience – representing the opportunity cost of a political career – increases, ceteris paribus, the likelihood of running for office declines. We empirically assess this key insight using a unique administrative dataset on Norway, a country where all foreign born can participate in local elections and be elected to local office after completing a three-year residency requirement. Our results provide strong support for our theoretical model and indicate that immigrants’ political and economic integration are closely intertwined.

Lingua

L'evento si terrà in italiano

Organizzatore

Dipartimento di Economia (EcSeminars)

Link

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/people/giovanni.facchini

Allegati

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