What Drives Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in South Africa?
What Drives Individual Attitudes Towards Immigration in South Africa?
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是什么推动了南非个人对移民的态度？
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.2023540
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
M. Mendola
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作者：
G. Facchini;A. Mayda;M. Mendola
本文利用 1996 年、2001 年和 2007 年的世界价值调查，实证研究了南非个人对移民态度的决定因素。我们要回答的主要问题是南非公众对移民的看法是否受到移民对当地人潜在劳动力市场竞争的影响。我们通过估计调查受访者的个人技能对其支持移民态度的影响来调查这个问题。我们的估计表明，个人技能的影响（通过教育程度和基于职业的衡量标准来衡量）在 1996 年和 2001 年都是积极且显着的。考虑到这两年南非移民的平均技能水平高于本地人，我们得出的结论是，劳动力市场渠道在移民偏好的形成中并未发挥作用。可以解释个人技能的积极影响的是非经济决定因素。
This paper empirically investigates the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration in South Africa using the 1996, 2001 and 2007 rounds of the World Value Survey. The main question we want to answer is whether South African public opinion on migration is affected by the potential labor market competition of migrants towards natives. We investigate this issue by estimating the impact of survey respondents’ individual skill on their pro-migration attitudes. Our estimates show that the impact of individual skill – measured both with educational attainment and an occupation based measure – is positive and significant in both 1996 and 2001. Given that in both years immigrants to South Africa are on average more skilled than natives, we conclude that the labor-market channel does not play a role in preference formation over immigration. What might explain the positive impact of individual skill are non-economic determinants.