Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe

IF 11.5 1区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Charlotte Cavaille, Karine Van der Straeten
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Abstract

Research shows that opposition to policies that redistribute across racial divides has affected the development of the American welfare state. Are similar dynamics at play in Western Europe? For many scholars, the answer is yes. In contrast, we argue that researchers’ understanding of the political economy of redistribution in diversifying European countries is too incomplete to reach a conclusion on this issue. First, existing evidence is inconsistent with the assumption—ubiquitous in this line of research—of a universal distaste for sharing resources with people who are culturally, ethnically, and racially different. Second, important historical and institutional differences between the United States and Europe preclude any straightforward transposition of the American experience to the European case. We discuss what we see as the most promising lines of inquiry going forward. (JEL D64, H23, J15, J68, K37, Z13)
移民和对再分配的支持:来自欧洲的教训
研究表明,反对跨种族重新分配的政策影响了美国福利国家的发展。类似的动态在西欧发挥作用吗?对于许多学者来说,答案是肯定的。相比之下,我们认为研究人员对欧洲多样化国家再分配政治经济学的理解过于不完整,无法就此问题得出结论。首先,现有证据与这一研究领域普遍存在的普遍厌恶与文化、种族和种族不同的人共享资源的假设不一致。其次,美国和欧洲之间重要的历史和制度差异阻碍了将美国的经验直接转移到欧洲的案例中。我们讨论了我们认为未来最有希望的调查路线。(JEL D64、H23、J15、J68、K37、Z13)
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期刊介绍: Commencing in 1969, the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) serves as a vital resource for economists, offering a means to stay informed about the extensive literature in the field. Each JEL issue features commissioned, peer-reviewed survey and review articles, book reviews, an annotated bibliography categorizing new books by subject, and an annual index of dissertations from North American universities.
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