Individual Attitudes towards Immigration in Aging Populations

Irmen, Andreas; Cömertpay, Rana; Litina, Anastasia

Reference : Individual Attitudes towards Immigration in Aging Populations


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	Discipline(s) :	Business & economic sciences : Macroeconomics & monetary economics
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/42610

Title :	Individual Attitudes towards Immigration in Aging Populations
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Irmen, Andreas [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA) >]
	Cömertpay, Rana [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA) >]
	Litina, Anastasia [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA) >]
Publication date :	2019
Collection and collection volume :	CREA Discussion Paper 19-04, University of Luxembourg
Number of pages :	31
Peer reviewed :	No
Keywords :	[en] Population Aging ; Immigration ; Culture ; Attitudes
Abstract :	[en] This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes of individuals towards immigration after accounting for their age and other individual characteristics. We test this hypothesis in a multilevel analysis of individuals living in 25 European OECD countries over the period 2002-2017. Our measure of “societal population aging” is the old-age dependency ratio. “Attitudes” are taken from immigration related questions in eight consecutive rounds of the European Social Survey. For these attitudes we find non-linear, U-shaped relationships. Hence, the effect of societal population aging on individual attitudes towards immigration is negative in young societies and positive in old ones.
Target :	Researchers
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/42610
Other URL :	https://ideas.repec.org/p/luc/wpaper/19-04.html

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