Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes toward migrants and pension systems

Tito Boeri, Matteo Gamalerio, Massimo Morelli and Margherita Negri

Journal of Economic Geography, 2024, vol. 24, issue 1, 63-78

Abstract: We study whether a better knowledge of the functioning of pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension systems and recent demographic trends affects natives’ attitudes toward immigration. In two online experiments conducted in Italy and Spain, we randomly treated participants with a video explaining how, in PAYG systems, the payment of current pensions depends on the contributions paid by current workers. The video also informs participants about population aging trends in their countries. The treatment increases knowledge of PAYG systems and future demographic trends for all participants. However, it improves attitudes toward migrants only for treated participants who do not support populist and anti-immigrant parties.

Keywords: information provision; experiment; immigration; pay-as-you-go pension systems; population aging; populism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D83 F22 H55 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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