Income, Amenities and Negative Attitudes

Gisela Waisman; Birthe Larsen

doi:10.1186/s40176-016-0056-0

Income, Amenities and Negative Attitudes

Gisela Waisman
, Birthe Larsen

Department of Economics

Stockholm University

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Abstract

We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to
Sweden in order to analyse the consequences of negative attitudes on refugees’ utility from labour income and amenities. We find that attitudes towards immigrants are important: while they affect mainly the refugees’
quality of life, they also affect their income. We estimate the utility effects of negative attitudes for refugees with different levels of education and gender. We also analyse how the size of the refugees’ networks relate to their quality of life and income as well as how negative attitudes towards immigration and networks interact.

Original language	English
Article number	8
Journal	IZA Journal of Development and Migration
Volume	5
Issue number	1
Number of pages	32
ISSN	2193-9039
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40176-016-0056-0
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2016

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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Attitudes towards immigration
Geographical mobility
Income
Amenities

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