Less Welfare or Fewer Foreigners? Immigrant Inflows and Public Opinion Towards Redistribution and Migration Policy

Murard, Elie

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“…The approach in past research (Scheve and Slaughter 2001, Mayda 2006, O’Rourke and Sinnott 2006, Hanson et al. 2007, Facchini and Mayda 2009, Murard 2017) was to estimate equation using probit or linear probability models, without taking the unobserved individual effect

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“…This test of the relevance of the economic mechanisms is much more demanding than the tests carried out in other contributions (Hanson et al. 2007, Facchini and Mayda 2009, Murard 2017). 5…”

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“…In the latter, the economic mechanisms are identified solely by the within-individual variations of attitudes towards immigrants from different origins. This test of the relevance of the economic mechanisms is much more demanding than the tests carried out in other contributions (Hanson et al 2007, Facchini and Mayda 2009, Murard 2017). 5 Our model describes how native-born form their attitudes towards immigration and integrates a labour-market and a welfare-state channel.…”

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“…2 For a more recent contribution that examines the labour-market channel by considering the role of occupations, see Ortega and Polavieja (2012). Murard (2017) considers the labour-market and welfare-state channels in his analysis of attitudes based on variation of immigration over time at the regional level in Europe. Hainmueller et al (2015) argue that the labour-market mechanism does not seem to play a role in the explanation of attitudes towards immigration since high-skilled immigration is preferred over low-skilled immigration by nativeborn of all skill levels.…”

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“…2 2 For a more recent contribution that examines the labour‐market channel by considering the role of occupations, see Ortega and Polavieja (2012). Murard (2017) considers the labour‐market and welfare‐state channels in his analysis of attitudes based on variation of immigration over time at the regional level in Europe. …”

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Individual attitudes towards migration: A re‐examination of the evidence

Müller

Tai

2020

Canadian J of Economics

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In the literature about the determinants of attitudes towards immigration, some authors emphasize the role of economic factors, while others argue that attitudes are mostly determined by non-economic factors. This paper evaluates the relative importance of the two. We estimate a structural model of individual attitudes towards immigration, accounting for unobserved individual factors, and use this model to carry out a decomposition analysis of attitudes in 20 European countries. We find that economic mechanisms are significant determinants of attitudes, but that other (noneconomic) factors play a more decisive role in the relation between individual education levels and attitudes to immigration. Résumé. Attitudes individuelles face à l'immigration : réexamen de l'évidence empirique. Dans la littérature portant sur les facteurs qui déterminent les attitudes face à l'immigration, certains auteurs soulignent le rôle des facteurs économiques tandis que d'autres affirment que ces attitudes sont principalement déterminées par d'autres facteurs. Cet article évalue l'importance relative de ces deux approches. Nous estimons un modèle structurel qui explique les attitudes individuelles face à l'immigration, et qui tient compte des facteurs individuels non observés. Nous utilisons ce modèle pour procéder à une analyse par décomposition de ces attitudes dans 20 pays européens. Nous trouvons que les mécanismes économiques influencent de manière significative les attitudes. Cependant, les facteurs non économiques jouent un rôle plus important dans la relation entre le niveau d'éducation des individus et leurs attitudes face à l'immigration.

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into account. This approach is problematic if, as seems to be the case, important non‐economic factors are unobserved and therefore included in

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.…”

Section: Estimation and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Individual attitudes towards migration: A re‐examination of the evidence

Müller

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2020

Canadian J of Economics

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Latin American Brotherhood? Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution

Martinez-Correa

Peñaloza-Pacheco

Gasparini

2021

The Journal of Development Studies

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The effect of immigration on preferences for redistribution has been recently studied in the context of developed countries receiving migrants from poorer countries with very different cultural backgrounds. In this paper we explore this issue in the context of migration across similar Latin American countries. To this aim, we exploit data at the provincial level from a large attitudinal survey (LAPOP) and match it to immigration data from different sources. We follow three approaches: first, we implement an instrumental variables approach in a cross-section of censuses; second we estimate fixed effects models with data from a large sample of harmonized national household surveys, and third we exploit the massive inflow of Venezuelan refugees into the border country of Colombia with an instrumental vari ables methodology. Our results suggest a significant, negative and non-monotonic relationship between the share of immigrants at the provincial level and the support for redistribution policies. This anti-redistribution effect is larger among those individuals with higher income.

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