Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto; Murard, Elie; Rapoport, Hillel

doi:10.1093/jeg/lbab002

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“…Adopting a within-country between-regions design, Alesina et al (2021) find that 'native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of immigrants in their residence region is higher.' Importantly, this negative association is stronger for immigrants from the Middle East and Eastern Europe and is not significant for immigrants from EU-15 or sub-Saharan Africa (Alesina, Murard, and Rapoport 2021).…”

Section: Effects On Social Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Immigration within the European Union Increases Support for Eurosceptic Parties

Toshkov¹

2021

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What are the political consequences of immigration? Theoretically, the mechanisms of intergroup contact and outgroup threat can lead to contradictory effects, and it remains uncertain which one would prevail in different contexts. In this article I study the impact of immigration from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) on support for Eurosceptic parties between 2004 and 2019 in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Portugal. I find that higher levels of immigration from CEE are systematically related to higher voting shares cast for right-wing Eurosceptic parties at the local level in all of these countries, net of the influence of non-Western immigration. In most countries, the effects are also robust to including a rich set of local-level socio-economic controls. These effects can be found in elections for the European Parliament as well as in national elections. The effects have not diminished over the past 15 years and are most visible in mid-sized localities. The effect on left-wing Euroscepticism is positive in the Netherlands, but negative in Denmark, Sweden and Italy. These results highlight the tension between free movement and political support for European integration. Even in the European Union, immigration from other member states can trigger hostile political reactions.

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Section: Effects On Social Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Immigration within the European Union Increases Support for Eurosceptic Parties

Toshkov¹

2021

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“…Referring to Alesina, Murard and Rapoport (2019), we argue that the problem is empirically less severe as attitudes for both aspects are expected to be highly correlated. Second, it is unclear whether this question is interpreted by respondents in an absolute or marginal manner, i.e., in relation to the current level of redistribution.…”

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Experiencing Booms and Busts in the Welfare State and Support for Redistribution

Hansen

Stutzer

2021

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Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy advice on labor market issues. Supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation, IZA runs the world's largest network of economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.

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“…Indeed, a growing body of literature, reviewed by Stichnoth and Van der Straeten (2013), focuses on the impact of (perceived) ethnic diversity on individuals' support for the welfare state; and therefore on support for transitions in and out of welfare across populations. A recent contribution from Alesina et al (2019) highlights, for the European case, lower support for redistribution from natives in areas where the proportion of migrants is high. This result may be explained by the combination of the generosity of the welfare system, the skills of the foreigners and racial heterogeneity.…”

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“…Second, neighbours may transmit information about vacancies through the so-called informal job-search approach (Ioannides and Loury, 2004) or may directly refer candidates to employers (Montgomery, 1991). Lastly, other mechanisms may be at play, driven by social norms (Kandori, 1992), stigma (Moffitt, 1983) or the perceived ethnic distribution of local welfare recipients (Alesina et al, 1999;Luttmer, 2001;Alesina et al, 2019).…”

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Investigating neighbourhood effects in welfare-to-work transitions

Dautel¹,

Fusco²

2021

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We analyse the existence and underlying mechanisms of neighbourhood effects in welfare-to-work transitions. The analysis is based on Luxembourg social security longitudinal data, which covers the period 2001-2015 and provides precise information at the postcode level, corresponding mostly to streets. Our identification strategy exploits plausible exogenous variations among neighbours provided by the thinness of the housing market once controlling for residential sorting. We first examine interactions among all neighbours using an individual-level analysis, before focusing on interactions among only welfare recipients using a matched-pair analysis. This second step allows us to deal with the mediating effect of welfare recipients' citizenship. The main findings highlight the existence of neighbourhood effects in welfare-to-work transitions, which are also affected by the characteristics of the neighbours, including their citizenship. These characteristics suggest that social norms and/or stigma prevail in welfare-to-work transitions over the support for welfare recipients to find a job, but not over the in-group support for welfare recipients. The matched-pair analysis provides contrasting results across citizenship for individuals from large-sized citizenship groups (interactions within the own group) and individuals from medium-sized groups (interactions between groups).

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Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe

Cited by 84 publications

References 56 publications

Immigration within the European Union Increases Support for Eurosceptic Parties

Immigration within the European Union Increases Support for Eurosceptic Parties

Experiencing Booms and Busts in the Welfare State and Support for Redistribution

Investigating neighbourhood effects in welfare-to-work transitions

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