| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP14317
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| DP14317 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration |
| Marco Tabellini
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| 发表日期 | 2020-01-16
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | In this paper, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration and study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s as well as instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on pre-existing settlement patterns. I find that immigration triggered hostile political reactions, such as the election of more conservative legislators, higher support for anti-immigration legislation, and lower redistribution. Exploring the causes of natives’ backlash, I document that immigration increased natives’ employment, spurred industrial production, and did not generate losses even among natives working in highly exposed sectors. These findings suggest that opposition to immigration was unlikely to have economic roots. Instead, I provide evidence that natives’ political discontent was increasing in the cultural differences between immigrants and natives. Results in this paper indicate that, even when diversity is economically beneficial, it may nonetheless be socially hard to manage. |
| 主题 | Economic History
; Labour Economics
; Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Immigration
Political backlash
Age of mass migration
Cultural diversity
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp14317
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543210
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Marco Tabellini. DP14317 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration. 2020.
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