期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Department of Economics, University of Essex
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：University of Essex
摘要：This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards
immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with
labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two different mechanisms
through which a redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of
immigration. In the first model, immigration has a larger impact on individuals
at the top of the income distribution, while under the second model it is
low-income individuals who are most affected through this channel. Individual
attitudes are consistent with the first welfare-state model and with
labor-market determinants of immigration attitudes. In countries where natives
are on average more skilled than immigrants, individual income is negatively
correlated with pro-immigration preferences, while individual skill is
positively correlated with them. These relationships have the opposite signs in
economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native
population). These results are confirmed when we exploit international
differences in the characteristics of destination countries' welfare state.
