Explaining Attitudes towards Immigration: New Pieces to the Puzzle

This paper deals with two hypotheses about factors influencing attitudes toward immigration in Germany. The first looks at how individuals? perceptions of their financial and job situation affect public opinion on immigration. The second hypothesis tests how these attitudes are affected by the beneficial/detrimental effect of immigration on the individual and constitutes the paper?s central contribution to the literature. The findings presented here offer direct evidence through the use of data from the German Socio-Economic-Panel (SOEP), in contrast to the indirect measures such as education and income employed in most empirical tests to date.

MoreLess

Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Tucci, Ingrid
Publisher:	Berlin : Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Subject:	SOEP \| immigration \| opinion formation \| self-interest

Full text |

More access options

Check Google Scholar

In German libraries (KVK)

I need help

More details

Series:	DIW Discussion Papers ; 484
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	487850165 [GVK] hdl:10419/18335 [Handle] RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp484 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor