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 …

selection effects. Main focus is on accelerated duration models and the estimators that are of the limited information type, i ….e. they are not based on a fully specified selection model. The estimators are instrumental variable adaptations to the Powell … significantly longer times outside the unemployment state. There are strong indications of selection effects. …

establishments suffer persistent losses. A comparison of estimators implies that initial sorting, negative selection, and voluntary …