The paper investigates the puzzling phenomenon of why Hong Kong citizens have much
lower support for increasing spending on social assistance when all other welfare programs …

Whereas individual-level studies find that encompassing welfare states might in general be
incompatible with large-scale immigration, studies on welfare spending find inconclusive …

Recently, a large number of studies have addressed the possible nefarious effects
immigration-induced diversity might have on support for redistribution. Most studies …

There has been great interest in the relationship between immigration and the welfare state
in recent years, and particularly since Alesina and Glaeser's (2004) influential work …

What makes some Americans assume that social welfare programs will benefit immigrants
rather than native-born Americans? How do these assumptions shape their attitudes about …

While the politics of globalization and welfare state retrenchment have garnered much
attention in recent years, scholarly research on public support for welfare state expenditure …

Increasing immigration is often linked with the public pressure for lower levels of publicly
funded social expenditures. However, the empirical evidence on the effects of increasing …

This paper addresses the important but relatively understudied problem of immigrants' use
of transfer payments. First we document gross differentials in the propensity of natives and …

There is a large discrepancy in European countries between the measured impact of
immigration on the welfare state and how this impact is perceived by citizens. This study …

How does a nation's welfare spending affect people's concern for immigrants in comparison
with other needy groups? Economic self-interest and cultural ideology theory and …