عنوان

Essays on Domestic Factors Driving Attitudes Towards Immigrants and Emigration

Number

TL49833

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Essays on Domestic Factors Driving Attitudes Towards Immigrants and Emigration

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Maliha Nazir

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Sylwester, Kevin

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

96

Text of Note

Committee members: Clark, Terry; Gilbert, Scott; Lahiri, Sajal; Watts, Alison

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-78854-9

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Economics

Body granting the degree

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This dissertation investigates various micro and macro level domestic factors affecting attitudes towards immigrants and emigration of international students. The first chapter examines if an individual's religiosity affects his attitude against immigrants in jobs in rich and poor countries using data from World Values Survey, wave 6 for the period 2010-2014. The main finding of this study is that per capita income affects an individual's attitudes against immigrants in getting hired but religiosity does not matter in affecting attitudes of people against immigrants in rich and poor countries. The second chapter explores Europeans opposition against Muslims, Jewish and Roma immigrants based on perceived economic, religious and security threats in strong and weak economies using European Social Survey for the period 2014-2015. The results suggest that the state of economy dominates a respondent's perception of economic, religious or security threats against banning Muslims, Jews and Roma immigrants. The third chapter sheds lights whether corruption in countries promote students to study abroad using data on outbound students from UNESCO for the period 1999-2015. The results indicate that corruption promotes emigration of international students for only high income countries in the sample but this result does not hold for low and middle income countries.

Economics

Subject Term

Social sciences;Attitudes;Corruption;European opinion;GDP;Immigrants;International students

Gahan, Jairan

Sylwester, Kevin

Subdivision

Economics

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Call Number

2027412254; 10600830

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[Thesis]

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