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Title	Replication Data for: The Impact of Intra-EU Migration on Welfare Chauvinism

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7WLGSD

Creator	Cornelius Cappelen Peters, Yvette

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	We examine whether intra-EU migration affects welfare-chauvinistic attitudes, i.e. the idea that immigrants’ access to the welfare system should be restricted. According to in-group/out-group theory, migration can unleash feelings of insecurity and thus trigger welfare chauvinism. According to intergroup contact theory, welfare chauvinism should decrease when immigration is higher, because contact reduces prejudice and softens anti-immigrant stances. We test these theories using data from the European Social Survey 2008/2009, supplemented with country-level data, and analyze these data using a multilevel ordered logit approach. We find a negative relation between intra-EU immigration and welfare chauvinism, supporting the intergroup contact theory: in countries with more intra-EU migration, welfare chauvinism tends to be lower. Furthermore, the higher the percentage of East European immigrants compared to other EU immigrants, the higher the level of welfare chauvinism.

Subject	Social Sciences Intra-EU immigration Welfare chauvinism Intergroup contact theory

Contributor	Peters, Yvette

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