Income comparisons and attitudes towards foreigners - Evidence from a natural experiment
| Autor: | Lutz Schneider, Walter Hyll |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economic integration
Economics and Econometrics Natural experiment media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration medicine.disease_cause language.human_language 0506 political science German Variation (linguistics) Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration language medicine Demographic economics 050207 economics Worry Relative deprivation Socioeconomic status media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Comparative Economics. 46:634-655 |
| ISSN: | 0147-5967 |
| Popis: | We exploit a natural experiment related to the German re-unification to address whether disutility from income comparisons affects attitudes towards foreigners. Our empirical approach rests upon East German individuals with West German relatives and friends. We use the exogenous variation of wealth of West Germans shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall as an instrument to identify the effect of disutility from income comparisons on East Germans’ attitudes. We find robust evidence that East Germans express more negative attitudes towards foreigners, particularly from low-wage countries, if they worry about their economic status compared to better-off West Germans. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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