Economic Explanations for Opposition to Immigration: Distinguishing between Prevalence and Conditional Impact

By Neil Malhotra, Yotam Margalit, C. Mo. 2013

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Immigration into Europe: Economic Discrimination, Violence, and Public Policy (2014, background): “…more emphasis on the economic drivers of hostility and has argued that immigration’s adverse effects on local economies, native wages, jobs, or tax burdens constrain support for immigration (Scheve & Slaughter 2001, Hanson et al. 2007, Dancygier & Donnelly 2013, Malhotra et al. 2013).”
The Contingent Effects of Candidate Sex on Voter Choice (2019, background): “…social class, partisanship, political interest, and 5 SSI samples of this kind have been used in a variety of survey studies published in top tier journals in political science (Berinsky, Margolis, and Sances 2014; Bullock 2011; Iyengar and Westwood 2015; Kam 2012; Malhotra, Margalit, and Mo 2013).”
The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration (2017, background): “We focus on immigration, because it is one of the most divisive issues in Western democracies today (e.g., Brader, Valentino, and Suhay 2008; Citrin et al. 1997; Malhotra et al. 2013; Sniderman et al. 2004).”
Do concerns about labor market competition shape attitudes toward immigration? New evidence☆ (2015, neutral): “Malhotra et al. (2013) ﬁ nd that when asked speci ﬁ cally about the expansion of H1-B visas – temporary entry permits for pre-dominantlyhigh-technology workers – native workersin thehigh technology sector are more likely to be opposed than other similarly-skilled nativesemployedinothersectors.”
Immigration, public opinion and the recession in Europe (2016, background): “Other studies support this view, finding that the education effect is stronger for workers in occupations that are most exposed to competition with low-skilled immigrants (Ortega and Polavieja, 2012; Dancygier and Donnelly, 2013; Malhotra et al., 2013) and for countries with low average skill levels”
Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide (2017, neutral): “Malhotra et al. find that natives working in the tech sector are less enthusiastic than others about immigrants holding H1 visas, presumably because these newcomers compete for high-tech jobs.(9) Mayda finds that SES is most strongly correlated with support in countries where the difference between ”