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migration by emphasising migrants’ own reflections and experiences. It asks whether and in which ways different welfare concerns … perspective, the book addresses different forms of geographical mobility, such as immigration, emigration, and re-migration …, circular and return migration. By bringing in empirical findings from across a variety of Western and non-Western contexts, the …
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One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity,...
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One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity,...
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The Tiebout hypothesis suggests that people who migrate from more to less redistributive countries are more negative towards redistribution than non-migrants. However, differences between migrants' and non-migrants' redistributive preferences might also reflect self-interest. We present a model...
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Are migrants self-selected and sorted according to their views about what constitutes a fair level of redistribution? A major challenge in answering this question is that fairness concerns and self-interest are intertwined. We present a theoretical framework that allows us to test whether...
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I test for welfare-induced migration by comparing AFDC participation in border counties to interior counties in the … same state. I assume that migration costs are lower for border county residents. If so, then at a state border with a large … for welfare migration. The results obtained using county-level data from 1970-90 indicate that having a neighbor with …
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