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Immigration and Redistribution by Alberto Alesina; Armando Miano; Stefanie Stantcheva is a Economics, Econometrics and Finance article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract 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 favoured by government transfers—than they actually are. In the experimental part of our article, 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 abo

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Author

Alberto Alesina; Armando Miano; Stefanie Stantcheva

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)