全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14605 Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14605
	DP14605 Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship
	Sergei Guriev; Cevat Giray Aksoy; Nicolas Ajzenman
发表日期	2020-04-12
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	Does exposure to mass migration affect economic behavior, attitudes and beliefs of natives in transit countries? In order to answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from the 2010 and 2016 rounds of the Life in Transition Survey and data on the main land routes taken by migrants in 18 European countries during the refugee crisis in 2015. To capture the exogenous variation in natives’ exposure to transit migration, we construct an instrument that is based on the distance of each locality to the optimal routes that minimize travelling time between the main origin and destination cities. We first show that the entrepreneurial activity of natives falls considerably in localities that are more exposed to mass transit migration, compared to those located further away. We then explore the mechanisms and find that our results are likely to be explained by a decrease in the willingness to take risks as well as in the confidence in institutions. We also document an increase in the anti-migrant sentiment while attitudes towards other minorities remained unchanged. We rule out the possibility of out-migration of natives or of trade-related shocks (potentially confounded with the mass-transit migration) affecting our results. Using locality-level luminosity data, we also rule out any effect driven by changes in economic activity. Finally, we find no statistically significant effects on other labor market outcomes, such as unemployment or labor force participation.
主题	Development Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Migration Refugee crisis entrepreneurship
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14605
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543513
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sergei Guriev,Cevat Giray Aksoy,Nicolas Ajzenman. DP14605 Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship. 2020.