01349nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100005600041245006800097260003600165300003200201520097000233773003601203240220b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aCavaillé, Charlotte and Straeten, Karine Van Der   aImmigration and support for redistribution: Lessons from Europe  aJournal of Economic Literature   a61(3), Sep, 2023: p.958-976  aResearch shows that opposition to policies that redistribute across racial divides has affected the development of the American welfare state. Are similar dynamics at play in Western Europe? For many scholars, the answer is yes. In contrast, we argue that researchers' understanding of the political economy of redistribution in diversifying European countries is too incomplete to reach a conclusion on this issue. First, existing evidence is inconsistent with the assumption—ubiquitous in this line of research—of a universal distaste for sharing resources with people who are culturally, ethnically, and racially different. Second, important historical and institutional differences between the United States and Europe preclude any straightforward transposition of the American experience to the European case. We discuss what we see as the most promising lines of inquiry going forward.- Reproduced

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  aJournal of Economic Literature