eprintid: 16433
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creators_name: Dustmann, C.
creators_name: Preston, I.
creators_id: CDUST02
creators_id: IPPRE90
title: Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration
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subjects: 12000
divisions: F24
note: © The Berkeley Electronic Press 2007
abstract: In this paper we distinguish between three channels that determine attitudes to further immigration: labour market concerns, welfare concerns, and racial or cultural concerns. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey. A unique feature of the survey is that it includes questions on attitudes towards immigration from different origin countries, with populations differing in ethnic similarity to the resident population. It also contains sets of questions relating directly to the labour market, benefit expenditure and welfare concerns, and racial and cultural prejudice. Based on this unique data source, we specify and estimate a multiple factor model that allows comparison of the relative magnitude of association of attitudes to further immigration with the three channels, as well as comparison in responses across potential immigrant groups of different origin. Our results suggest that, overall, welfare concerns play a more important role in determination of attitudes to further immigration than labour market concerns, with their relative magnitude differing across potential emigration regions and characteristics of the respondent. In addition, we find strong evidence that racial or cultural prejudice is an important component to attitudes towards immigration; however, this is restricted to immigration from countries with ethnically different populations.
date: 2007
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1935-1682.1655
vfaculties: VSHS
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
doi: 10.2202/1935-1682.1655
lyricists_name: Dustmann, C
lyricists_name: Preston, I
lyricists_id: CDUST02
lyricists_id: IPPRE90
full_text_status: public
publication: The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
volume: 7
number: 1
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1935-1682
citation:        Dustmann, C.;    Preston, I.;      (2007)    Racial and economic factors in attitudes to immigration.                   The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy , 7  (1)      10.2202/1935-1682.1655 <https://doi.org/10.2202/1935-1682.1655>.       Green open access   
 
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