Working Paper No 2015/05 The impact of welfare benefits on natives’ and immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration Peter Huber / Doris A. Oberdabernig Abstract We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration of natives and immigrants in a pooled cross-section of 21 European countries for the 2004-2010 period. Explicitly controlling for benefit dependence of immigrants and natives we find that higher benefit take-up rates among immigrants than natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylized facts for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. Research for this paper was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under a grant to the National Centre of Competence in Research on Trade Regulation, based at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, Switzerland. NCCR TRADE WORKING PAPERS are preliminary documents posted on the NCCR Trade Regulation website (<www.nccr‐trade.org>)and widely circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment. These papers have not been formally edited. Citations should refer to an “NCCR Trade Working Paper”, with appropriate reference made to the author(s).
The impact of welfare benefits on natives’ and immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration
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