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Title: | Welfare spending and ethnic heterogeneity: evidence from a massive immigration wave [WP-IEB] |
Author: | Jofre Monseny, Jordi Sorribas, Pilar Vázquez Grenno, Javier |
Keywords: | Emigració i immigració Política de despeses públiques Eleccions Partits polítics Dreta (Ciències polítiques) Distribució de la renda Emigration and immigration Government spending policy Voting Political parties Right (Political science) Income distribution |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | Institut d’Economia de Barcelona |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IEB11/34] |
Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and redistribution, by using the recent and massive arrival of immigrants in Spain. Specifically, we focus on the effect of changes in immigrant density, recorded between 1998 and 2006, on contemporaneous changes in municipal welfare spending. We instrument for immigrant density using established settlement patterns per country of origin so as to assign predicted flows of immigrants to municipalities. We find that welfare spending increased less in those municipalities that recorded the largest increases in immigrant density. We also provide evidence of a positive relationship between immigrant density and the vote share accruing to right-wing parties. Hence, our results are consistent with theories that predict a negative relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and redistribution. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/2012022157/ieb/ultimes-publicacions |
It is part of: | IEB Working Paper 2011/34 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/116584 |
Appears in Collections: | IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers |
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