Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe

By Jens Hainmueller, Michael J. Hiscox. International Organization, 2005

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Public attitudes towards support for migrants: the importance of perceived voluntary and involuntary migration (2018, background): “…attitudes are (in part) group-specific and depend, for example, on immigrants’ cultural similarity (Ford 2011), level of educational and work skills (Hainmueller and Hiscox 2007, 2010; Helbling and Kriesi 2014), language and skin tone (Hopkins 2015), national origin (Fasel, Green, and Sarrasin…”
The Education Effect: Higher Educational Qualifications are Robustly Associated with Beneficial Personal and Socio-political Outcomes (2015, background): “A range of studies analyzing data collected in Europe have found that lower education levels are associated with greater levels of prejudice, ethnic exclusionism, xenophobia, and negative attitudes towards immigration and immigrants (Hainmueller and Hiscox 2007; Hello et al. 2002; Jenssen and Engesb”
Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide (2017, background): “14 Hainmueller and Hiscox 2007.”
Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants? Evidence across Countries (2009, positive): “14 See Boeri, Hanson, and McCormick (2002), table 3.2, p. 747. This argument has been used by many policymakers in Europe to highlight the potential role of immigration policy as a tool to deal with the difficulties created by pay as you go social security systems in the presence of an aging populat”
Immigration, Ethnic Diversity, and Political Outcomes: Evidence from Denmark (2018, background): “…examining attitudes towards immigration and how these are shaped by existing immigration flows (see, e.g., Citrin et al., 1997; Scheve and Slaughter, 2001; O’Rourke and Sinnott, 2006; Dustmann and Preston, 2006, 2007; Hainmueller and Hiscox, 2007, 2010; Facchini and Mayda, 2009; Card et al., 2012).”
Immigration into Europe: Economic Discrimination, Violence, and Public Policy (2014, background): “Examining attitude surveys, scholars have consistently found that native populations are sensitive to the degree of the ethnic and cultural differences between themselves and the various immigrant populations (e.g., Sniderman et al. 2004, Hainmueller & Hiscox 2007, Sides & Citrin 2007).”
Economic Explanations for Opposition to Immigration: Distinguishing between Prevalence and Conditional Impact (2013, background): “…Mayda 2006; Scheve and Slaughter 2001), other studies either cast doubt on the interpretation of the evidence used to confirm the LMC hypothesis (Hainmueller and Hiscox 2007, 2010) or present evidence showing only a weak relationship between attitudes on immigration and labor-market threat (or…”
Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe1 (2019, background): “significantly less intolerant towards immigrants and place greater value on cultural diversity (Hainmueller and Hiscox, 2007).”
The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration (2017, background): “…cultural norms and values, particularly among individuals with less education and a less cosmopolitan worldview (e.g., Coenders and Scheepers 2003; Hainmueller and Hiscox 2007; Sniderman, Hagendoorn, and Prior 2004; Wright, Citrin, and Wand 2012), and (2) concerns over economic competition and…”
Individual Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries (2006, neutral): “See Espenshade and Hempstead (1996) and Hainmueller and Hiscox (2005) for an alternative interpretation of the empirical evidence.”
Attitudes Toward Immigration: The Role of Personal Predispositions (2016, background): “Recent work has emphasized the conditional nature of the influence of personality on attitudes (Gerber, Huber, Doherty, & Dowling, 2010; Mondak, Hibbing et al., 2010a; Mondak, Canache et al., 2010b). Mondak et al. (2010a) thus suggest that “expression of personality traits will vary by situation” (p”