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Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
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I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … attitudes in a joint empirical framework. Using migration data at the NUTS regional level from the European Labor Force Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664508
This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden …, and a pro-immigrant party received high vote shares. We further document that this episode of mass immigration had lasting … effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially …
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redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of …
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redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418917
interrelations between these dynamic effects and three different fiscal systems for the redistribution of income and find that these … to the welfare system: while there are welfare gains without redistribution, these gains may be turned into costs when … the state engages in redistribution …
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attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand … individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity spending. We also review the fast-growing literature that uses experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298807
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299930
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600915
I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … attitudes in a joint empirical framework. Using migration data at the NUTS regional level from the European Labor Force Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955009