Income Comparisons and Attitudes towards Foreigners

Walter Hyll and Lutz Schneider

VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: We exploit a natural experiment related to the German re-unification to address the question whether disutility from income comparisons affects attitudes towards foreigners. We find robust evidence that East Germans expose strong negative attitudes towards foreigners, particularly from low-wage countries, if they worry about their economic status compared to better-off West Germans.

JEL-codes: D31 J61 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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