Arbeitspapier
Does the education level of refugees affect natives' attitudes?
In recent years, Europe has experienced a large influx of refugees. While natives' attitudes toward refugees are decisive for the political feasibility of asylum policies, little is known about how these attitudes are shaped by information about refugees' characteristics. We conducted a survey experiment with a representative sample of more than 4,000 adults in Germany in which we randomly provide information about refugees' education level. Information provision strongly increases respondents' beliefs that refugees are well educated. The information also increases labor market competition concerns, decreases fiscal burden concerns, and positively affects general attitudes toward refugees. We perform several robustness analyses in additional experiments with more than 5,000 university students. In sum, we show that correcting misperceptions about refugees' education level has profound effects on natives' attitudes.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 346
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
- Thema
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Refugees
information provision
education
survey experiment
labor market
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Lergetporer, Philipp
Piopiunik, Marc
Simon, Lisa
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
Datenpartner
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Lergetporer, Philipp
- Piopiunik, Marc
- Simon, Lisa
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Entstanden
- 2021
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