Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/125738 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 82
Publisher: 
WWWforEurope, Vienna
Abstract: 
We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by natives and immigrants in a pooled cross-section of 21 European countries for the 2004-2010 period. Explicitly controlling for the dependence of immigrants and natives on benefits we find that higher benefit take-up rates among immigrants than among natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration.
Subjects: 
Immigration
welfare state
migration attitudes
JEL: 
F22
J15
H53
I38
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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