Wages, Amenities and Negative Attitudes

Gisela Waisman and Birthe Larsen
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Gisela Waisman: Stockholm University

No 04-2012, Working Papers from Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics

Abstract: We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to Sweden in order to analyse the consequences of the attitudes on immigrants welfare. We find that attitudes towards immigrants are of importance: they both affect their labour market outcomes and their quality of life. We interpret the negative effect on wages as evidence of labour market discrimination. We estimate the welfare effects of negative attitudes, through their wage and local amenities, for immigrants with different levels of skills, origin, gender and age.

Keywords: Attitudes towards immigration; Geographical Mobility; Wages; Amenities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J31 J61 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2012-01-25
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-eur, nep-lma, nep-mig and nep-ure
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