We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on public
spending and on individual support for the welfare state. The survey puts a particular focus …

This article develops a model for analyzing social identity and applies it to the political
economy of income redistribution, focusing on class and national identities. The model …

This paper investigates the causal link between the ethnic diversity in a society and its
inhabitants' preferences for redistribution. We exploit exogenous variation in immigrant …

I study the impact of immigration and increasing ethnic diversity on political outcomes in
immigrant‐receiving countries, focusing on immigration and election outcomes in Danish …

People's preferences for state intervention in social policies vary. A cross-section analysis
on individual-level survey data is conducted here over 33 democracies to highlight the link …

This article asks whether religion undermines the negative relationship between income and
left voting that is assumed in standard political economy models of democracy. Analysis of …

BRIDGING TRADE THEORY AND LABOUR ECONOMETRICS: THE EFFECTS OF
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Several studies have shown that a person's attitude towards immigration affects his or her
support for welfare redistribution. According to one view, negative attitudes towards …

This paper explores the relationship between perceptions of immigration and preferences
for redistribution, using survey data from the European Social Survey. Some recent literature …

This chapter considers if and how social and political trust are affected by policy outputs and
outcomes related to the welfare state. We survey how (dis) similar explanatory variables …