Calendrier du 09 octobre 2018
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 09/10/2018 de 14:30 à 16:00
MSE - 106 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris - Room 6th floor
WEI Shang-Jin (Columbia Graduate School of Business)
Re-examining the Effect of Trading with China on US Local Labor Markets: A Supply Chain Perspective
écrit avec Z. Wang, X. Yu, K. Zhu
Du 09/10/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-01, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 09/10/2018 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-09, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
MURARD ELIE (IZA)
Immigration and Attitudes toward Redistribution in Europe
écrit avec Alberto Alesina, Hillel Rapoport
We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes to redistribution by assembling a new dataset of immigrant stocks at the regional level in 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. We combine census and population register records with attitudinal data from the biannual 2002-2016 rounds of the European Social Survey. We find that center and rightwing natives display lower support for redistribution when the share of immigrants in their region of residence is higher. This holds particularly in regions of countries with relatively large Welfare-States.
This negative relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is robust to the inclusion of a rich set of regional and individual controls, as well as to using alternative measures of preferences for redistribution. All these effects are stronger for immigration originating from non-European countries.