We examine the relationship between immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe using a newly assembled dataset of immigrant stocks for 140 regions in 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of immigrants in their residence region is higher. This negative association is driven by regions of countries with relatively large welfare states and by respondents at the center or at the right of the political spectrum. It is stronger when immigrants originate from Middle-Eastern or Eastern European countries, are less skilled than natives and experience more residential segregation. These results are unlikely to be driven by immigrants’ endogenous location choices, that is, by welfare magnet effects or by immigrants’ sorting into regions with better economic opportunities. They are also robust to instrumenting immigration using a standard shift-share approach.

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移民和欧洲再分配的偏好

我们使用新组装的 16 个西欧国家 140 个地区的移民存量数据集来研究移民与欧洲再分配偏好之间的关系。利用区域层面移民比例的国内差异，我们发现当居住地区的移民比例较高时，本土受访者对再分配的支持较低。这种负面关联是由福利国家相对较大的国家地区以及处于政治光谱中心或右翼的受访者推动的。当移民来自中东或东欧国家，技能不如当地人并且经历更多的居住隔离时，这种情况会更强烈。这些结果不太可能由移民的内生位置选择驱动，即 通过福利磁效应或移民被分类到具有更好经济机会的地区。它们还可以使用标准的轮班共享方法来检测移民。