Reciprocity in welfare institutions and attitudes to free movement in EU receiving countries

• This paper analyses the determinants of public attitudes to the “free movement” of workersin the European Union. We add to the small but growing research literature on this issue byfocusing on how the characteristics of national welfare institutions affect public attitudes tointra-EU labour mobility. More specifically, we explore the role of what we see as thedegree of “institutional reciprocity” in national systems of social protection in explainingvariations of attitudes to free movement across 12 EU Member States. We do not findevidence of a direct effect of institutional reciprocity on attitudes to free movement.However, we identify an interaction effect which suggests that higher degrees ofinstitutional reciprocity in national social protection systems in general, and inunemployment insurance systems in particular, are associated with lower levels ofopposition to free movement among unemployed people.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science -- Political Science (hsv//eng)

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Statskunskap

Political Science

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