Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants? Evidence across Countries

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria

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“…The standard approach to the analysis is to incorporate a simple model of public finance into the FP analysis of immigration (Facchini and Mayda 2009;Hanson 2005;Hanson, Scheve, and Slaughter 2007). This approach allows immigration not only to affect the pretax incomes of native individuals, but also to separately affect aftertax incomes via taxes and transfers.…”

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“…This finding is interpreted as confirmation that, as expected in the scenario in which the government adjusts taxes to meet new spending obligations, rich natives fear being burdened with higher taxes as a consequence of low-skilled immigrants drawing on public services and draining government coffers. Facchini and Mayda (2009) examine the cross-national survey data from the ISSP and find that respondent income is negatively correlated with support for immigration in countries where low-skilled immigrants are a larger share of total immigration inflows. This finding is also regarded as evidence that fears about higher taxes among rich natives, linked to use of public services by low-skilled immigrants, lead to anti-immigrant sentiments.…”

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“…The covariates are simply included here to increase the comparability of some of the coefficients with previous studies (Facchini and Mayda 2009;Hanson, Scheve, and Slaughter 2007;Mayda 2006;Scheve and Slaughter 2001). Notice that because the randomization orthogonalizes HSKFRAME with respect to Z, the exact covariate choice does not affect the results of the main coefficients of interest.…”

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W hy do people oppose or favor immigration?Recent scholarly work examining survey data on individual attitudes toward immigration has generated inconsistent findings and no clear consensus view. Many studies suggest that opposition to immigration is primarily driven by noneconomic concerns associated with cultural and ethnic tensions between native and immigrant populations (Bauer, Lofstrom, and Zimmerman 2000;Burns and Gimpel 2000;Chandler and Tsai 2001;Citrin et al. 1997;Dustmann and Preston 2007;Espenshade and Hempstead 1996;Fetzer 2000;Gang, Rivera-Batiz, and Yun 2002;Lahav 2004;McLaren 2003). These studies emphasize noneconomic differences between individuals in terms of ethnocentrism and ideology in explaining attitudes toward immigrants and connect to an extensive body of empirical research indicating that material self-interest rarely plays a role in shaping people's opinions about major policy issues (Kinder and Sears 1981;Sears and Funk 1990;Sears et al. 1980).A very different set of studies argue that material economic concerns lie at the heart of anti-immigrant Both authors are affiliated with Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) which generously provided funding for the survey. We thank Alberto Abadie, George Borjas, Giovanni Facchini, Gordon Hanson, Gary King, David Lynch, Anna Mayda, Dani Rodrik, Ken Scheve, Matthew Slaughter, Dustin Tingley, the co-editors, and five anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments. The usual disclaimer applies.

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“…The opposite is true if they are richer than voters. The welfare-state impact of non-citizen migrants will also imply income distribution effects which depend on the type of adjustment of the welfare state to migration (see Facchini and Mayda (2009)) and how rich voters are. Finally, the perceived effect of Republicans on voters' non-pecuniary utility can be linked to the cultural effects of new (non-citizen) migrants, which are likely to depend on how different voters and migrants are in terms of language spoken, religion, historical and institutional background.…”

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“…11 For papers analyzing the labor-market and welfare-state determinants of public opinion on migration across countries, see for example Mayda (2006), Mayda (2009) andO'rourke andSinnott (2006)). …”

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Immigration to the U.S.: A Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?

2016

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA 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. We empirically analyze the impact of immigration to the U.S. on the share of votes to the Republicans and Democrats between 1994 and 2012. Our analysis is based on variation across states and years -using data from the Current Population Survey merged with election data -and addresses the endogeneity of immigrant flows using a novel set of instruments. On average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican vote share, consistent with the typical view of political analysts in the U.S. This average effect -which is driven by elections in the House -works through two main channels. The impact of immigration on Republican votes in the House is negative when the share of naturalized migrants in the voting population increases. Yet, it can be positive when the share of non-citizen migrants out of the population goes up and the size of migration makes it a salient policy issue in voters' minds. These results are consistent with naturalized migrants being less likely to vote for the Republican Party than native voters and with native voters' political preferences moving towards the Republican Party because of high immigration of non-citizens. This second effect, however, is significant only for very high levels of immigrant presence. JEL Classification:F22, J61

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Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants? Evidence across Countries

Cited by 419 publications

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Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Immigration to the U.S.: A Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?

Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in Contemporary Politics

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