Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature

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We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity spending. We also review the fast-growing literature that uses experiments to study the effects of ethnic diversity. Many of these studies have appeared since the pioneering survey by Alesina and La Ferrara (2005a), and have not been covered by a survey before.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 09-036

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; Social Security and Public Pensions ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• Subject: redistribution ; social security ; welfare state ; immigration ; ethnic diversity ; survey ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Migranten ; Multikulturell ; Sozialstaat ; Einkommensumverteilung ; Wohltätigkeit ; Meinung ; USA ; Kanada ; Europa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Stichnoth, Holger ; van der Straeten, Karine
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27717