Real household income and attitude toward immigrants: an empirical analysis

Becchetti, Leonardo; Rossetti, Fiammetta; Castriota, Stefano

doi:10.1016/j.socec.2009.07.012

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“…Yet, Corneo and Jeanne (2009) found that in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Slovenia social tolerance of homosexuals increase with the individual's income and the country's GDP per capita. Becchetti et al (2010) also demonstrated empirically the positive effect of economic growth on tolerance towards immigrants in Germany.…”

Section: Sources Of Social Tolerance: Theories and Empirical Evidencementioning

confidence: 79%

Explaining Self-Declared Social Tolerance for Human Diversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Bangwayo-Skeete

Zikhali

2013

Forum for Social Economics

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Social tolerance enables heterogeneous persons to find harmony in their differences. This has been shown to reduce the likelihood of inter-and intra-group conflicts, thereby creating an environment conducive for economic and social development. This paper examines socio-economic factors that influence individual differences in social tolerance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Being mindful of the fact that there are socio-cultural differences between Latin America and the Caribbean, five dimensions of social tolerance are investigated: tolerance for racial and religious dissimilarity, homosexuals, AIDS victims and immigrants. Using the 2005 World Values Survey data, we simultaneously estimate tolerance towards these groups using multivariate probit models. Education is found to positively and significantly enhance all five dimensions of social tolerance, suggesting that policies meant to enhance social tolerance should be directed towards improving educational systems. Overall, the analysis underscores heterogeneity of factors affecting self-declared tolerance of the selected social groups. Thus, analyses of social tolerance and ensuing policies should be developed specific to a particular dimension of tolerance.

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Section: Sources Of Social Tolerance: Theories and Empirical Evidencementioning

confidence: 79%

Explaining Self-Declared Social Tolerance for Human Diversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Bangwayo-Skeete

Zikhali

2013

Forum for Social Economics

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“…Moreover, the scores do not consider those ‘downstream’ domains of corporate responsibility such as corporate philanthropy, which can create benefits for workers or local communities in market places as well as encouraging environmental sustainability in the country of the final consumer. It is well‐documented that concern and sensitivity for the well‐being of foreigners and distant people decline significantly during negative business cycles as the economy tends to be considered a fixed cake (Becchetti, Castriota and Rossetti, ). Our analysis becomes even more relevant precisely because it is conducted at the end of a six‐year recession, which saw a fall of about 14% in average Italian household income (OECD, ).…”

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“…Scorecard of the Oxfam Behind the Brands campaign posted at supermarket entries in the field experiment (in Italian). Notes: Meaning of the scores given by the Oxfam's campaign: Good = 8-10; Fair = 6-7; Some progress = 4-5; Poor = 2-3; Very poor = 0-1. sensitivity for the well-being of foreigners and distant people decline significantly during negative business cycles as the economy tends to be considered a fixed cake (Becchetti, Castriota and Rossetti, 2009). Our analysis becomes even more relevant precisely because it is conducted at the end of a six-year recession, which saw a fall of about 14% in average Italian household income (OECD, 2015).…”

Section: The Oxfam Behind the Brands Campaignmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Information on CSR Scores Salient: A Randomized Field Experiment

2019

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We locate a giant ‘school report‐like’ scorecard poster with domain‐specific social and environmental responsibility scores of the ten leading world food companies, measured by the Oxfam ‘Behind the Brands’ world campaign, at the entrance of selected supermarkets. We test the impact of these scores on consumers’ choices by means of a randomized field experiment. Our findings show that the Oxfam ranking matters since the treatment has a positive and significant effect on the market share of the companies with the highest scores and a negative and significant effect on the companies placed at the lowest ranks. Invisibility matters too, with the largest non‐ranked companies selling in the store experiencing a slight fall in their market shares.

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Section: Socioeconomic Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, results of research in Germany by Becchetti, Rossetti, and Castriota (2010) revealed that personal income was negatively related to self-declared concern about immigrants. Furthermore, when an individuals' income was reduced by 2.28% their concern about immigrants increased, but when their income increased by 1.83% their concern about immigrants decreased (Becchetti et al, 2010). Further, individuals who were unemployed or experienced high inflation rates were more likely to have concerns regarding immigrants than those who were employed or received a rise in income levels (Becchetti et al, 2010).…”

Section: Socioeconomic Statusmentioning

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Influence of Raters’ Attributes on Biases Toward Immigrants

2019

JBD

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Although immigrants offer many benefits for organizations and our society, they continue to experience unfair discrimination, prejudice, and hostility in the employment process. One contributing factor towards the negative perceptions toward immigrants are the raters' attributes (i.e., decision makers in the workplace). These attributes include their demographic background (e.g., age, gender), differences between raters' and immigrants ' cultural values, raters' personality, and raters' previous contact with immigrants. In order to understand raters' biases toward immigrants, we used the social cognition framework (Miller & Brewer, 1984) to explain the reasons for these biases, and offered hypotheses to guide future research on the issue.

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Real household income and attitude toward immigrants: an empirical analysis

Cited by 21 publications

References 12 publications

Explaining Self-Declared Social Tolerance for Human Diversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Explaining Self-Declared Social Tolerance for Human Diversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Making Information on CSR Scores Salient: A Randomized Field Experiment

Influence of Raters’ Attributes on Biases Toward Immigrants

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