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Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239263
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Financial literacy and political orientation in Great Britain
Montagnoli, Alberto; Moro, Mirko; Panos, Georgios A.; … - 2016
are some 15-23 percent less likely to change attitudes radically towards the left or the right across different waves of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571862
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Financial literacy and attitudes to redistribution
Montagnoli, Alberto; Moro, Mirko; Panos, Georgios A.; … - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631491
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Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2000
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 … such attitudes. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, which includes questions on attitudes towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336853
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The impact of the recent expansion of the EU on the UK labour market
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2008
Work Orientation module International Social Survey Programme to look at the attitudes of residents of these countries … UK could remain strong well into the future. -- EU expansion ; migration ; attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755936
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On the measurement of polarisation : a questionnaire study
Amiel, Yoram (contributor); Cowell, Frank A. (contributor);  … - 2007
Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994) and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate whether people's perceptions of income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out using a questionnaire-experimental approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540203
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Students' academic self-perception
Chevalier, Arnaud; Gibbons, Steve; Thorpe, Andy; Snell, … - 2007
Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, thereby increasing the expected costs to studying. Among high school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003566273
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The "mighty girl" effect : does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender roles?
Borrell-Porta, Mireia; Costa-Font, Joan; Philipp, Julia - 2018
over 5 percentage points. We conclude that gender role attitudes can be shaped by events that occur later in life. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785738
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Examining the determinants of managers' hiring attitudes towards immigrant workers : evidence from an employer survey
Fang, Tony; Zhang, Tingting; Hartley, John - 2023
with employer hiring attitudes towards international migrants. Our results indicate that employers who hired international … immigrants in the past 12 months exhibited more positive attitudes towards them, consistent with the contact theory. We also find … provincial variations in hiring attitudes in that employers in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and PEI had more positive attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287242
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Attitudes towards migrants during crisis times
Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021
How are natives' attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more empathy towards migrants … economic consequences of COVID-19, before eliciting their altruism and attitudes towards Venezuelan forced migrants. We find … that natives' attitudes towards migrants are substantially more negative in the treatment relative to the control group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517584