Calendrier du 15 novembre 2022
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 15/11/2022 de 17:00 à 18:00
R1-13
FLORES Ignacio (World Inequality Database, PSE)
Land Inequality in the Developing World
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 15/11/2022 de 14:45 à 16:15
Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405
OSSA Ralph (U. Zurich)
Trade, Growth, and Patenting: A Quantitative Evaluation of TRIPS
écrit avec D. Hémous, T. Sampson, and J. Schärer
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 15/11/2022 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1.09
RICKNE Johanna (Stockholm University)
The class ceiling in politics
The working class is under-represented in political office worldwide. We study factors that help workers enter and advance in politics by leveraging detailed microdata from Sweden, a best performer in this aspect of democracy. We document that workers in politics face a “class ceiling” in the form of a smaller likelihood to advance from lower to higher office conditional on observable measurements of qualifications. While trade unions are important vehicles for workers’ entry and advancement in politics, even strong union ties do not fully compensate for the class ceiling. We end with a broader discussion about factors that may have shifted segments of the working class from political mobilization into parties on the ideological left toward mobilization for the radical right.