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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita - 2019

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...

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The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country

Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2021

Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees’ integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts...

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Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration

Haaland, Ingar - 2020

Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then provide respondents in the treatment group with research...

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Priming Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Implications for Migration Research and Survey Design

Dylong, Patrick; Setzepfand, Paul; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2023

Using data from two representative and large-scale population surveys with more than 4000 participants, we investigate the effect of randomized priming interventions on attitudes towards immigrants. We document robust null effects of these interventions under two experimental settings, across...

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Immigrant Narratives

Gehring, Kai; Harm Adema, Joop Age; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants’ role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced natural language processing tools with dictionaries...

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Prosociality, Political Identity, and Redistribution of Earned Income : Theory and Evidence

Dhami, Sanjit - 2018

proportion of income) also decline by almost the same amount, suggesting shared understanding that is characteristic of social …

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Don't Stop Believin’ – Heterogeneous Updating of Intergenerational Mobility Perceptions Across Income Groups

Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023

perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in … Austria and show that the average treatment effect of information on perceptions is mostly driven by higher income individuals … while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …

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Fair Earnings Tax Reforms

Ooghe, Erwin; Schokkaert, Erik; Serruys, Hannes - 2023

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

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Gender and ethnicity : married immigrants in Britain

Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2005

In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...

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Cross-racial envy and underinvestment in South Africa

Haile, Daniel; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2006

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa … significantly affects individual trust behaviour. The low income subjects from both racial groups invest significantly less in … partnerships with the high income subjects of the other racial group than in any other partnership. We attribute this behaviour to …

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