id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_q4ln6qn4jfebto2jmemk3xwnce Christos Pargianas ENDOGENOUS POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, WAGE INEQUALITY, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 2016 25 .pdf application/pdf 7710 1025 79 a change in policies that increased the skill premium in the subsequent decades above its initial value. Key Words: Endogenous Growth, Political Economy, Endogenous Institutions, Education, Innovation, Wage Inequality, Minimum Wage, Labor Unions, Special Interest Groups, Strategic Voting, Campaign Contributions, wage inequality between and within groups of skilled and unskilled workers and an increase in cost to start a new firm and high minimum wage) imply smaller support from educated voters the labor force implies an increase in the relative importance of skilled workers in the political short run, but then it induces a change in economic policies that increases the skill premium, This paper argues that political parties will choose such bad (for skilled workers) policies not in effect, which shifts the relative demand curve for skills as shown in figure I, because the increase The relative supply change also increases the fraction of strategic voters and decreases ./cache/work_q4ln6qn4jfebto2jmemk3xwnce.pdf ./txt/work_q4ln6qn4jfebto2jmemk3xwnce.txt