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such attitudes. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, which includes questions on attitudes towards … about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are …
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The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on …
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data from the British Election Survey in 2014, we employ two distinct measures of political orientation, capturing … are some 15-23 percent less likely to change attitudes radically towards the left or the right across different waves of …
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This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British … Election Study. We find a significant negative relationship between financial literacy and attitudes in favour of government … instrumental variable regressions. Falsification tests show that these results are independent of generic attitudes towards other …
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. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority …
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Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ethnic unions that involve a minority member and a white member. To our knowledge, hardly any...
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This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...
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On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the …
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Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC...
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