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their opposition to future immigration. In turn, an open-minded and tolerant attitude promotes mutual trust and solidarity … natives' support for redistribution, with attitudes towards immigrants and immigration acting as mediators. By applying … losing intangible goods triggered by immigration is substantial in the formation of natives' socio-political attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256986
Combining the link between ethnic heterogeneity, attitudes towards immigrants, and the support of redistribution, predictions are made about natives' preference for redistribution depending on interethnic contact, perceived outgroup threats, and natives' social distance from immigrants. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770667
Combining the link between ethnic heterogeneity, attitudes towards immigrants, and the support of redistribution, predictions are made about natives' preference for redistribution depending on interethnic contact, perceived outgroup threats, and natives' social distance from immigrants. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779508
This paper introduces a politico-economic model with a welfare state and immigration. In this model, policies on taxes … and immigration are determined through a plurality voting system. While many studies of fiscal implications of immigration … argue that relaxing immigration policies can substitute for tax reforms in an aging economy, I show that the democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174507
This paper introduces a politico-economic model with a welfare state and immigration. In this model, policies on taxes … and immigration are determined through a plurality voting system. While many studies of fiscal implications of immigration … argue that relaxing immigration policies can substitute for tax reforms in an aging economy, I show that the democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169281
This paper introduces a politico-economic model with a welfare state and immigration. In this model, policies on taxes … and immigration are determined through a plurality voting system. While many studies of fiscal implications of immigration … argue that relaxing immigration policies can substitute for tax reforms in an aging economy, I show that the democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294992
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people … uncorrelated with ethnic, linguistic or genetic diversity. Our main result is that the diversity of skilled immigration relates … gravity model to predict the share and diversity of immigration based on exogenous bilateral variables. The results are robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793124
This study considers the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on government spending in 31 OECD countries over 25 … ethnic fractionalization, not immigration itself, has a negative impact on spending in the OECD. On the whole, immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013277448
We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of … immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why …. We start from the "standard" view that immigration triggers political backlash and raises support for nativist, anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517877
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people … uncorrelated with ethnic, linguistic or genetic diversity. Our main result is that the diversity of skilled immigration relates … gravity model to predict the share and diversity of immigration based on exogenous bilateral variables. The results are robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328934