Immigration and Support for the Welfare State: Local and Institutional Responses

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Project Background
The project studies how different forms of immigration affect the political support of the welfare state. We understand the welfare state's political support as depending on the preferences of voters and parties, as well as on the strength of institutions in the labor market (trade unions).
Project Approach
We study responses to immigration using individual data (survey and administrative data), regional data and cross-national data. Using various types of natural experiments, we try to uncover causal effects of immigration.
Participants
Participant | Degree | Phone | |
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Sara Cools Research Professor | PhD | +47 984 96 736 | sara.cools@samfunnsforskning.no |
Henning Finseraas Affiliated Researcher | PhD | +47 482 83 631 | henning.finseraas@ntnu.no |
Øyvind Søraas Skorge Senior Research Fellow | PhD | +47 930 41 655 | oyvind.skorge@samfunnsforskning.no |
Marte Strøm Research Professor | PhD | +47 408 85 333 | marte.strom@samfunnsforskning.no |
Andreas Kotsadam (Frischsenteret) | |||
Staffan Kumlin (the University of Oslo) | |||
Jonas Pontusson (University of Geneva) | |||
David Soskice (London School of Economics) | |||
Magnus Bergli Rasmussen |
Publications
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Cools, Sara; Finseraas, Henning & Røgeberg, Ole (2021). Local Immigration and Support for Anti-Immigration Parties: A Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). 65(4), p. 988–1006. doi: 10.1111/ajps.12613. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
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Finseraas, Henning & Strøm, Marte (2021). Voter responses to refugee arrivals: Effects of settlement policy. European Journal of Political Research. doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12461. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
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Cools, Sara; Finseraas, Henning & Rasmussen, Magnus Bergli (2020). The Immigrant-Native Gap in Union Membership: A Question of Time, Sorting, or Culture? Labour. doi: 10.1111/labr.12186. Full text in Research Archive
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Bratsberg, Bernt; Ferwerda, Jeremy; Finseraas, Henning & Kotsadam, Andreas (2020). How Settlement Locations and Local Networks Influence Immigrant Political Integration. American Journal of Political Science (AJPS). doi: 10.1111/ajps.12532. Full text in Research Archive
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Finseraas, Henning; Røed, Marianne & Schøne, Pål (2019). Labour immigration and union strength. European Union Politics. 21(1), p. 3–23. doi: 10.1177/1465116519881194. Full text in Research Archive
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Finseraas, Henning; Skorge, Øyvind Søraas & Strøm, Marte (2018). Does education affect immigration attitudes? Evidence from an education reform. Electoral Studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy. 55(Oct), p. 131–135. doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2018.06.009. Full text in Research Archive Show summary