We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of … immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of …

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries … 1945 to 1990, East Germans lived under a Communist regime with heavy state intervention and extensive redistribution. We … find that, after German reunification, East Germans are more in favor of redistribution and state intervention than West …

redistribution creates more post-tax inequality. The welfare state will encounter severe risks when free migration of people, goods …

imperfections make future earning a function of current resources. Combined with the politics of redistribution this creates the … potential for multiple steady-states, with mutually reinforcing high inequality and low redistribution, or vice-versa. Temporary …

immigrants and how these perceptions influence their preferences for redistribution. We find strikingly large misperceptions … redistribution, in a randomized manner, makes them support less redistribution, including actual donations to charities. Information … immigrants and reduces their support for redistribution. An anecdote about a "hard working'' immigrant is somewhat more effective …

immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical … literature on the effects of racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution in the US and Europe …

-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve …-led redistribution to the poor. These patterns suggest that short-run inequality shocks can be reinforced in the labor market but do not … result in weaker political preferences for redistribution …