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Replication Data for: Insiders, outsiders, skills and preferences for social protection: evidence from a survey experiment in Argentina

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Title Replication Data for: Insiders, outsiders, skills and preferences for social protection: evidence from a survey experiment in Argentina
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Q0TUL2
 
Creator Menendez Gonzalez, Irene
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Standard theories in comparative political economy predict that labor market insiders oppose redistribution to poorer, often informal, labor market outsiders. In contrast, I argue that not all insiders oppose redistribution to outsiders. Extending recent work emphasizing the importance of economic insecurity for insiders, I argue that exposure to risk leads to greater polarization regarding preferences for non-contributory social policy between low- and high-skilled insiders. I test implications of this logic using a survey experiment from a nationally representative sample in Argentina and complement this with analysis of observational data for 16 Latin American countries. I find strong evidence of polarization regarding preferences over social protection among low- and high-skilled insiders. The experiment reveals that low (high)-skilled insiders primed about the risk of job loss become more supportive of transfers to outsiders (insiders). The paper provides new micro-foundations for insider-outsider coalitions in support of social policy expansion in middle-income countries.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Welfare states
Redistributive preferences
Survey experiments
 
Contributor Menendez Gonzalez, Irene