Unemployment and attitudes to immigrants in Europe: A comparison of early and late countries of immigration

Turner Thomas and Cross Christine
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Turner Thomas: Assistant Professor Emeritus, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland
Cross Christine: Professor – Vice President Academic Affairs and Registrar, Munster Technological University, Ireland

Administration, 2025, vol. 73, issue 3, 61-86

Abstract: Rational economic self-interest predicts that a period of unemployment is likely to increase negative attitudes towards immigrants. Our findings indicate that, in the five countries examined, a period of unemployment does not necessarily lead to more negative attitudes to immigrants. Crucially, the statistical differences in the mean attitudinal scores of the unemployed and those continuously employed disappears when political values are considered. Trust in politicians, political parties and national parliament is a stronger predictor of attitudes to immigrants than a period of unemployment. Additionally, there was no evidence that attitudes among the unemployed towards immigrants differed between countries with a long tradition of immigration and those experiencing immigration more recently such as Ireland and Spain.

Keywords: attitudes to immigrants; political institutions; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.2478/admin-2025-0019

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