%0 Journal Article
%T Attitudes towards immigrants and the integration of ethnically diverse societies
%A Tiiu PAAS
%A Vivika HALAPUU
%J Eastern Journal of European Studies
%D 2012
%I Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
%X The paper aims to clarify the possible determinants of peoples¡¯ attitudes towards immigrants depending on their personal characteristics as well as attitudes towards households¡¯ socio-economic stability and a country's institutions relying on the data of the European Social Survey fourth round database. The study intends to provide empirical evidence-based grounds for the development of policy measures to integrate ethnically diverse societies, taking into account the composition of the country's population as well as other country¡¯s peculiarities. The results of the empirical analysis are consistent with several theoretical approaches explaining individual and collective determinants of people¡¯s attitudes towards immigrants. Ethnic minorities, urban people, people with higher education and income, as well as people who have work experience abroad are, as a rule, more tolerant towards immigrants in Europe. Furthermore, people whose attitudes to socio-economic risks are lower and who evaluate the political and legal systems of a country and its police higher are more tolerant towards immigrants. The respondents¡¯ labour market status (employed, unemployed) does not have a statistically significant relationship with their attitudes towards immigrants. In addition to the respondent¡¯s personal characteristics and their attitudes, the collective determinants depending on country specific conditions measured by country dummies are valid in explaining people¡¯s attitudes towards immigration.
%K attitudes
%K immigration
%K tolerance
%K economic growth
%K policy implications
%U http://ejes.uaic.ro/articles/EJES2012_0302_PAA.pdf