Alexandre Afonso
Leiden University
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The network structure of economic expertise in the US and Germany
New paper with M. Flickenschild on the network structure of economic expertise in the US and Germany https://t.co/PSa2X5v9ML pic.twitter.com/eFX6Sp7oJN — Alexandre Afonso (@alexandreafonso) February 14, 2017 Read.
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L’immigration pour garder les femmes à la maison ? Le travail féminin et les politiques d’immigration en Suisse
A paraître dans Panorama, 2017. Au cours des 60 dernière années, la Suisse a fait massivement appel aux travailleurs et travailleuses étranger-e-s pour satisfaire ses besoins de main d’œuvre. Dans le contexte de reconstruction de l’après-guerre, les travailleurs étrangers, en particulier saisonniers, semblaient être la solution la plus efficace pour augmenter le volume Read.
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A ranking of European Regions by GDP per capita
Data comes from Eurostat. Rank Country NUTS Code Name Purchasing power standards (PPS) per inhabitant in percentage of the EU average 1 UK UKI3 Inner London – West 539 2 LU LU00 Luxembourg 266 3 BE BE10 Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest 207 4 DE DE60 Hamburg 206 5 UK UKI4 Inner London Read.
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On the Survival of the Dutch Polder Model: Performance, Populism, Political Economy
To be published (in Dutch) in Beleid en Maatschapij, symposium on “Nog steeds een mirakel? De legitimiteit van het poldermodel in de eenentwintigste eeuw“, ed by Maarten Keune, Amsterdam University Press The totemic status of the Dutch polder model may have waned somewhat since the publication of Visser and Hemerijck’s “Dutch Miracle” in 1997, Read.
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Book review: How a strong Communist party led to less social protection in Portugal, and its absence to more protection in Spain
The Left Divided: The Development and Transformation of Advanced Welfare States By Sara E. Watson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780190245474, 376 p (review to appear in Political Studies Review, autumn 2017). One of the most widespread assumptions in welfare state and comparative political economy research is that the strength of the left is the Read.
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Democracy in Cuba, 1900-2010
The V-Dem dataset is a huge dataset that compiles many indicators to measure political institutions, dating back to 1900. With the death of Fidel Castro, I tried to see what the indicators said about the evolution of democracy in Cuba. It shows a tremendous decline after 1950. Interestingly this started before Fidel Castro, during the dictatorship of Read.
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Donald Trump’s victory in historical perspective
Donald Trump is on course to be the US presidential candidate to win the Presidency with the largest negative popular vote margin, with nearly 2 million votes less than Hillary Clinton. At the same time, Hillary Clinton is set to become the presidential candidate with the third largest number of votes in US history. Read.
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The Fiscal Impact of Immigrants: Perceptions vs. Reality
The graph above charts popular perceptions about how much immigrants pay into the welfare state (vertical axis) against what they actually pay (horizontal axis, in euros per household). The data comes from a paper by Huber et al. for the horizontal axis (based on EU SILC data) and the the vertical axis comes from the Read.
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Comparing EU member states and US states
Economists often compare the European Union and the United States, notably in the context of macro-economic management. For instance, the United States has a fiscal union that allows automatic transfers from richer states to poorer states, a system that the European Union does not have. The United States also has a more integrated labour market, and Read.
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Portuguese Labour Market Reforms in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis: The Problems Behind the Recovery
This is a extended repost of a blog written with Jasper Simons for Critcom, the blog of the Council of European Studies. If one were to believe the assessments of European institutions, Portugal is on the path to recover from the severe economic crisis it suffered from 2010 onwards, and the drastic reforms implemented in Read.
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