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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto; Stantcheva, Stefanie - 2022

literature on the effects of racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution in the US and Europe …

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Alesina, Alberto - 2018

We design and conduct large-scale surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how natives perceive immigrants and how these perceptions influence their preferences for redistribution. We find strikingly large misperceptions about the number and characteristics of immigrants: in all...

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Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Towards Globalization

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2021

The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals' attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions of Heckscher-Ohlin theory. The theory predicts that the impact of being skilled or unskilled on attitudes towards trade and immigration should depend on a country's skill...

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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016

Moriconi, Simone - 2018

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as expressed by voting behavior in parliamentary or presidential elections between 2007 and 2016. We combine individual data on party voting with a classification of each party's...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity

Razin, Asaf - 2011

skill composition of migrants while in a restricted mobility regime, the impact will be the opposite, as voters will prefer … selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the …

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses : Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky, Ran - 2010

United States maintained open borders. Using a novel dataset of Norway-to-US migrants, we estimate the return to migration … while accounting for migrant selection across households by comparing migrants with their brothers who stayed in Norway. We … also compare the fathers of migrants and non-migrants by wealth and occupation, and examine migrants' assimilation in the …

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Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities

Card, David E. - 2009

Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing potential externalities on natives. While previous...

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Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution

Luttmer, Erzo F. P. - 2010

Is culture an important determinant of preferences for redistribution? To separate the effect of culture from the effect of the economic and institutional environment (quot;contextquot;), we relate immigrants' preferences for redistribution to the average preference in their birth countries,...

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