Even in Sweden: The Effect of Immigration on Support for Welfare State Spending

Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

“…Their estimations suggest that negative attitudes towards immigrants are associated with less support for the welfare state but that this correlation is unrelated to the perceived share of immigrants in the population. A third related study is that by Eger (2009), who uses survey data collected by Swedish sociologists and regresses three repeated cross sections from the first half of the 2000s of survey-stated preferences for social welfare expenditures on immigrant shares in Swedish counties, concluding that ethnic heterogeneity has a negative effect. It should however be noted that, since there are only 20 Swedish counties, the aggregation to county-level data poses problems for inference.…”

Moral categories in the financial crisis

“…Thus the weakness of solidaristic feelings and institutions in the United States has often been related to the country's brutal racial history, which has resulted in the seemingly intractable situation of a large black underclass (Feagin 1975;Quadagno 1996;Lamont 2000). In Europe, weakening support for the welfare state has also been understood as a byproduct of negative attitudes toward immigrants (Senik/ Stichnoth/Van der Straeten 2009;Eger 2010). …”

Early chilhood education in Sweden : the market curriculum 200-2013?

“…Despite Sweden's success in many other areas (EGER, 2010), the same processes that have ensured economic progress and social stability, have not advanced women's position in society. Wikander (1992) stresses that the societal economic structure ensures women's subordination in salaried work and in unsalaried work in the home and with child care.…”