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| Title: | | Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? Evidence from Germany  |
| Authors: | | Stichnoth, Holger |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 10-008 |
| Abstract: | | Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use individual-level panel data, which allows a more convincing identification of a causal effect. I find that the negative bivariate association is mainly driven by observed individual differences such as East German origin or income. While there remains some evidence of a negative association even after adjusting for individual differences (including time-invariant unobserved differences), the association is weak compared to the association with other variables such as income, self-employment, or East German origin. |
| Subjects: | | redistribution social security welfare state immigration ethnic diversity Germany cluster-robust standard errors two-way clustering |
| JEL: | | H53 H55 I38 J15 J61 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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