Explaining immigration preferences: Disentangling skill and prevalence
| Autor: | Neil Malhotra, Benjamin Newman |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Research & Politics, Vol 4 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2053-1680 20531680 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2053168017734076 |
| Popis: | One of the most important and consistent findings to emerge from the study of immigration politics over the past decade is the seemingly uniform preference among mass citizenries for high-skilled immigrants. One potential conceptual flaw in this mounting body of literature is that skill is confounded with prevalence: people may prefer high-skilled immigrants not because they are skilled but because there are not very many of them. To address this possibility, we conducted an original experiment within a nationally representative survey of over 12,000 respondents. We conducted three main empirical tests and found that the skill premium is not confounded by prevalence. However, low-skilled Mexican immigrants specifically are disadvantaged when people are told that they are prevalent, a finding that comports with extant research on the construction of Latino immigration as a unique threat to American society. |
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