| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP13035
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| DP13035 Immigration and Redistribution |
| Alberto Alesina; Armando Miano
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| 发表日期 | 2022-03-09
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| 出版年 | 2022
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Does immigration change support for redistribution? We design and conduct large-scale surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how people perceive immigrants and how these perceptions influence their support for redistribution. We find striking misperceptions about the number and characteristics of immigrants. In all countries, respondents greatly overestimate the total number of immigrants, think immigrants are culturally and religiously more distant from them, and economically weaker–less educated, more unemployed, and more reliant on and favored by government transfers–than they actually are. In the experimental part of our paper, we show that simply making respondents think about immigration before asking questions about redistribution makes them support less redistribution, including actual donations to charities. The perception that immigrants are economically weaker and more likely to take advantage of the welfare system is strongly correlated with lower support for redistribution, much more so than the perceived cultural distance or the perceived share of immigrants. These findings are confirmed by further experimental evidence. Information about the true shares and origins of immigrants does not change support for redistribution. An anecdote about a “hard working” immigrant has somewhat stronger effects, but is unable to counteract the negative priming effect of making people think about immigration. Our results further suggest that narratives shape people’s views on immigration more deeply than hard facts. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
; Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Redistribution
Survey
Perceptions
Immigration
Taxation
Online experiment
Fairness
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13035-1
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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/546066
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Alberto Alesina,Armando Miano. DP13035 Immigration and Redistribution. 2022.
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