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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)
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- Lundqvist, Heléne (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Nationalekonomiska institutionen
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- Uppsala : Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2011
- English 42 s.
- Series: Working paper / Department of Economics, Uppsala University (Online), 1653-6975 ; 2011:1
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- In recent decades, the immigration of workers and refugees to Europe has increased substantially, and the composition of the population in many countries has consequently become much more heterogeneous in terms of ethnic background. If people exhibit in-group bias in the sense of being more altruistic to one's own kind, such increased heterogeneity will lead to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits a nationwide program placing refugees in municipalities throughout Sweden during the period 1985 - 94 to isolate exogenous variation in immigrant shares. We match data on refugee placement to panel survey data on inhabitants of the receiving municipalities to estimate the causal effects of increased immigrant shares on preferences for redistribution. The results show that a larger immigrant population leads to less support for redistribution in the form of preferred social bene t levels. This reduction in support is especially pronounced for respondents with high income and wealth. We also establish that OLS estimators that do not properly deal with endogeneity problems - as in earlier studies - are likely to yield positively biased (i.e., less negative) eects of ethnic heterogeneity on preferences for redistribution.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
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- Income redistribution
- ethnic heterogeneity
- immigration
- Economics
- Nationalekonomi
- Nationalekonomi
- Economics
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