Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/198925 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7565
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for their age and other individual characteristics. We test this hypothesis in a multilevel analysis of individuals living in 25 European OECD countries over the period 2002-2017. Our measure of “societal population aging” is the old-age dependency ratio. “Attitudes” are taken from immigration related questions in eight consecutive rounds of the European Social Survey. For these attitudes we find non-linear, U-shaped relationships. Hence, the effect of societal population aging on individual attitudes towards immigration is negative in young societies and positive in old ones.
Subjects: 
population aging
attitudes
immigration
culture
JEL: 
J10
Z10
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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