The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David D.

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“…SeeGiuliano (2011) andVan der Straeten (2013) for a survey of the literature on redistributive policies, andAlesina and La Ferrara (2005) for a survey on the effect of social heterogeneity on social capital and trust; see alsoAlgan et al (2016) for recent results andDesmet et al (2009) for the role of linguistic diversity on redistribution.…”

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina

Murard

Rapoport

2019

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HighlightsWe examine the relationship between immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions in 16 Western European countries.Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of immigrants in their residence region is higher.This negative association is driven by regions of countries with relatively large Welfare States and by respondents at the center or at the right of the political spectrum.The effects are also stronger when immigrants originate from Middle-Eastern or Eastern European countries, are less skilled than natives, and experience more residential segregation.These results are unlikely to be driven by immigrants' endogenous location choices, that is, by welfare magnet effects or by immigrants' sorting into regions with better economic opportunities. They are also robust to instrumenting immigration with a standard shift-share approach or to controlling for regional growth prospects.They are also robust to instrumenting immigration with a standard shift-share approach or to controlling for regional growth prospects. AbstractWe examine the relationship between immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions in 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of immigrants in their residence region is higher. This negative association is driven by regions of countries with relatively large Welfare States and by respondents at the center or at the right of the political spectrum. The effects are also stronger when immigrants originate from Middle-Eastern or Eastern European countries, are less skilled than natives, and experience more residential segregation. These results are unlikely to be driven by immigrants' endogenous location choices, that is, by welfare magnet effects or by immigrants' sorting into regions with better economic opportunities. They are also robust to instrumenting immigration with a standard shiftshare approach or to controlling for regional growth prospects.

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

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Murard

Rapoport

2019

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“…A similar mechanism is proposed by Algan et al (2011) who argue that more diverse communities are likely to face more trouble in coordinating collective action to demand better social services from the government. 13 In sum, then, this body of scholarship hypothesizes that the extent of ethnic diversity undermines public goods provision by affecting the ability of a community to act collectively either to provide the goods themselves or lobby the state for the provision of the services.…”

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“…One perspective centres on the outputs of state activities in order to detect variations (e.g. Alesina et al 1999;Algan et al 2011;Baldwin and Huber 2010;Miguel and Gugerty 2005). Specifically, the focus is on the aggregate level, distribution and geographic coverage of public services and goods, whether those are policing, education, health care, or transport infrastructure.…”

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“…For an excellent overview see Lieberman (2002); for a critical stance on taxation as an indicator of state capacity see Fukuyama (2004). and Gugerty 2005;Algan et al 2011;Fearon and Laitin 1996). The capacity of communities to act together, for example, to raise funds for schools, collect garbage, repair roads, clear drains, and maintain other public infrastructure projects, is clearly a very important channel for the provision of essential social services.…”

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The Politics of Inclusive Development

Hickey

Sen²,

Bukenya³

2014

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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. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes.You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ www.econstor.eu The Politics of Inclusive DevelopmentIt is now widely accepted that politics plays a signifi cant role in shaping the possibilities for inclusive development. However, the specifi c ways in which this happens across different types and forms of development, and in different contexts, remains poorly understood. This collection provides a stateof-the-art review regarding what is currently known about the politics of inclusive development. Leading academics offer systematic reviews of how politics shapes development across multiple dimensions, including through growth, natural resource governance, poverty reduction, service delivery, social protection, justice systems, the empowerment of marginalised groups, and the role of both traditional and non-traditional donors. The volume not only provides a comprehensive update but also a ground-breaking range of new directions for thinking and acting around these issues. The book's originality thus derives not only from the wide scope of its case-study material, but also from the new conceptual approaches it offers for thinking about the politics of inclusive development, and the innovative and practical suggestions for donors, policy makers, and practitioners that fl ow from this. 1 The Politics of Inclusive DevelopmentInterrogating the Evidence Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. First Edition published 2015 First published in paperback 2016This book is dedicated both to the future of our latest arrivals, Noah Jem, Shawn Michael, and Matthew Francis, and ForewordThe Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre strives to create knowledge that contributes to making states more effective and committed to achieving social justice. This is a grand goal but our partners...

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“…A notable difference between the United States and France is the high prevalence of public housing in the latter. Recent work suggests that the large public housing sector in France might distribute immigrants across a wider range of neighborhoods without concern for their origin (Algan et al 2016;Kesteloot and Cortie 1998;Oberti and Préteceille 2016;Quillian and Lagrange 2016), thereby potentially decreasing their segregation. However, prior research raises some doubts with respect to the desegregation potential of public housing in Europe.…”

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Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges From Non-European Immigration in France

Verdugo

Toma

2018

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Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of ghettos in large cities. Using French census data over three decades, we examine how this increase in public housing participation has affected segregation. While segregation levels have increased moderately, on average, the number of immigrant enclaves has grown. The growth of enclaves is being driven by the large increase in non-European immigrants in the census tracts where the largest housing projects are located, both in the housing projects and the surrounding nonpublic dwellings. As a result, contemporary differences in segregation levels across metropolitan areas are being shaped by the concentration of public housing within cities, in particular the share of non-European immigrants in large housing projects constructed before the 1980s. Nevertheless, the overall effect of public housing on segregation has been ambiguous. While large projects have increased segregation, the inflows of non-European immigrants into small projects have brought many immigrants into census tracts where they have previously been rare and, thus, diminished segregation levels.

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The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Cited by 131 publications

References 37 publications

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

The Politics of Inclusive Development

Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges From Non-European Immigration in France

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