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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution
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- Dahlberg, Matz (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF),Nationalekonomiska institutionen
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- Edmark, Karin (author)
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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- Lundqvist, Heléne (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutet för internationell ekonomi,Institute for International Economic Studies
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- University of Chicago Press, 2012
- 2012
- English.
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In: Journal of Political Economy. - : University of Chicago Press. - 0022-3808 .- 1537-534X. ; 120:1, s. 41-76
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- This paper investigates the causal link between the ethnic diversity in a society and its inhabitants' preferences for redistribution. We exploit exogenous variation in immigrant shares stemming from a nationwide program placing refugees in municipalities throughout Sweden during 1985-94 and match data on refugee placement to panel survey data on inhabitants of the receiving municipalities. We find significant, negative effects of increased immigration on the support for redistribution. The effect is especially pronounced among high-income earners. We also establish that estimates from earlier studies failing to identify causal effects are likely to be positively biased (i.e., less negative).
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Economics
- nationalekonomi
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- art (subject category)
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