Migration and social preferences
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چکیده
Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to host country’s culture (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute discussion investigating whether or not adapt their social preferences (SPs) those prevalent in country. Relying on global and experimentally validated survey we show migrants’ strongly correlate with population’s SPs provide suggestive evidence of causal relationship line assimilation hypothesis.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Economics Letters
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1873-7374', '0165-1765']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110773