Christian Albrekt Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 253099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Albrekt Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian Albrekt |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3309-3018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 688 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Gender discrimination in hiring in older age? Experimental evidence from employer evaluations
Despite extensive research on gender discrimination in hiring, little is known about how gender biases affect job applicants in older age. This study examines whether and how gendered hiring discrimination persists later in life, focusing on variation by the content of the work performed at the workplace, employer gender, and employer role. Drawing on a factorial survey experiment with 5017 Danish employers and 20,068 applicant evaluations, we as…
Beyond the Left–Right Divide: How Ukrainian Refugees did not Polarise Voters in Denmark, Sweden and France
Why are minorities poor? Cross-Atlantic explanations for poverty and public support for redistribution
The article describes public explanations of economic deprivation among minorities and their correlation with support for redistribution. The point of departure is the well-established American case of majority perceptions of Black people, which we compare with majority perceptionsof Black people in Canada and Muslims in the UK, France, Denmark,Sweden and Italy. The study draws on original survey data collected in each country in 2021-2022 and fi…
Working together or apart? Exposure between natives and migrants in Danish workplaces from 1996 to 2019
This article examines the extent to which the increasing ethnic diversity of Northern Europe's population translates into exposure between natives and migrants (and their descendants) in the workplace, using Danish register data over nearly three decades. Consistent with the expectations of neo-assimilation theory, we find that Danish workplaces have become a common site of mutual exposure, including exposure between natives and two subcategories…
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects
In a preregistered nationwide factorial survey experiment among 5017 Danish employers and 20,068 vignettes, we examined the interplay between applicant age (45-75 years) and other applicant characteristics in hiring discrimination. The experiment enabled us to examine the relative importance of age compared to other forms of hiring discrimination, as well as the additive and multiplicative effects. First, regarding relative importance, our study …
Integration through crossing circles natives’ opportunity pools and diversification of friendships in a transforming Europe
The article studies the social relationships of natives in the destination countries of migrants. Specifically, the article estimates the share of non-natives in natives’ friendship opportunity pools (FOP) and its correlation with natives only having native friends. Danish data is used due to a unique possibility of linking register information, allowing the establishment of an objective measurement of FOP at various levels, and survey informatio…
The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: A conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark
Migrants and Welfare States: Balancing Dilemmas in Northern Europe
She is specialized in the study of comparative welfare state research and the fields of integration and migration studies. She has been involved in major research projects, beginning with her PhD project, publishing a comparative, historical study of the development of integration policies within the Scandinavian welfare states. More recently, her major projects have focused on how the welfare state and its institutions influence migrants' socio-…
Who can become a full member of the club?—Results from a conjoint survey experiment on public attitudes about the naturalisation of non‐EU migrants in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark
In this article, we study attitudes towards the naturalisation of non‐European (EU) migrants in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark. This is done using a conjoint experiment. Respondents are presented with profiles of non‐EU‐migrants, whose attributes are varied over labour market status, education, language skills, time lived in the destination country, family relations, religious background and gender. We find a preference for granting…
Migrants’ Attitudes and the Welfare State: The Danish Melting Pot
Analysing two major surveys of 14 different migrant groups connected to Danish register data, this insightful book explores what migrants think of the welfare state. It investigates the question of whether migrants assimilate to the ideas of extensive state intervention in markets and families or if they retain the attitudes and values that are prevalent in their countries of origin.
Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services
The article theorises how covering social risks through cash transfers and in-kind services shapes public attitudes towards including/excluding immigrants from these programmes in Western European destination countries. The argument is that public attitudes are more restrictive of granting immigrants access to benefits than to services. This hypothesis is tested across ten social protection programmes using original survey data collected in Denma…
Deservingness put into practice: Constructing the (un)deservingness of migrants in four European countries
The increased comparative research on perceptions of public welfare deservingness studies the extent to which different subgroups of citizens are deemed worthy or unworthy of receiving help from the welfare state. The concept of deservingness criteria plays a crucial role in this research, as it theorizes a universal heuristic that citizens apply to rank people in terms of their welfare deservingness. Due to the mainly quantitative nature of the …
The institutional logic of giving migrants access to social benefits and services
The article analyses how the programmatic structure of welfare schemes in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany shape public perceptions of and preferences for migrants’ entitlement to social benefits and services. First, the article finds that despite high complexity and the presence of some severe misconceptions, the entitlement criteria of migrants within existing social benefits and services do shape public perceptions of reality. Second, the …
Coming to Europe: American Exceptionalism and American Migrants’ Adaption to Comprehensive Welfare States
The United States has not developed a comprehensive welfare state, unlike most other Western countries. This has been subject to a number of different interpretations. One of the prominent theories is that Americans carry a special creed of individuality and liberty that can be traced back to the establishment of the American nation-state. This cultural “American exceptionalism” is argued to be a hindrance to welfare state development in the past…
Migrants' support for welfare state spending in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands
This contribution describes differences between 10 migrant groups and natives in their attitudes towards government spending in three residence countries: Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Previous research provided evidence that “migrants” as a catch‐all category of people from different origins are in favor of more government spending on social welfare. We study to what extent support for government spending can be explained by self‐intere…
Revitalizing the 'civic' and 'ethnic' distinction. Perceptions of nationhood across two dimensions, 44 countries and two decades
This article describes how contemporary publics think about the nation along Kohn's classic distinction between "civic" and "ethnic" nationalism. The article makes three contributes to the existing literature. Firstly, it introduces a new statistical tool, multi-classification-analysis, to establish and analyse the two-dimensional structure found in this and previous studies. Secondly, it derives at an alternative interpretation with a first dime…
The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes
Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes reluctant to support welfare policy? And conversely, why are people who live in social democratic welfare regimes so keen to support it? These core questions lie at the heart of this intriguing book. By examining how different welfare regimes influence public support for welfare policy, the book explores the institutional settings of different regimes and how each produces its own support. While …
Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes: How Welfare Regimes Influence Public Support
The myth of unadaptable gender roles: Attitudes towards women’s paid work among immigrants across 30 European countries
It is a predominant assumption in contemporary political and academic debates that gender roles and attitudes supporting women’s paid work among immigrants are deep-rooted and stable over time. However, the actual work–family orientations among immigrants are rarely studied. The purpose of this article is to study to what extent and at what pace immigrants in general adapt to the attitudes towards women’s paid work that prevail in the host countr…
Education and trust: Exploring the association across social relationships and nations
Contemporary research on trust has come to assume that education has a universal positive effect on trust. Using the survey item that has dominated the trust literature -'whether one believes most people can be trusted or one can never be too careful' - education is often found to be one of the strongest predictors of trust, more important than age, income, wealth, health or any another individual characteristic. Thus there are indeed reasons to …
How three narratives of modernity justify economic inequality
The acceptance of income differences varies across countries. This article suggests belief in three narratives of modernity to account for this: the 'tunnel effect,' related to perceptions of generational mobility; the 'procedural justice effect,' related to the perceived fairness in the process of getting ahead; and the 'middle-class effect,' related to perceptions of the social structure of society. The importance of the suggested narratives is…
The Rise and Fall of Social Cohesion
The Rise and Fall of Social Cohesion: The Construction and De-construction of Social Trust in the US, UK, Sweden and Denmark
Afhandlingens spørgsmål er, hvorfor tilliden mellem mennesker er faldende i USA og Storbritannien, mens den er stigende i Danmark og Sverige. Afhandlingens overordnede tema er således, hvordan social sammenhængskraft kan undergraves og opbygges. Afhandlingen giver en social konstruktivistisk forklaring på spørgsmålet. Det vises, at opfattelsen af at leve i et meritokratisk middelklasse samfund er af afgørende betydning for vores vurdering af medb…
Når hudfarven forsvinder: Hvordan etnisk blandede folkeskoler skaber tillid til indvandrere
Artiklen analyserer, hvorvidt blandede skoler skaber tillid mellem etniske danskere og indvandrere. Ved hjælp af et eksperimentelt design dokumenteres det, at etnisk danske børn på homogene ”hvide” skoler har mindre tillid til personer med anden hudfarve, mens den tilsvarende effekt er fraværende blandt etnisk danske børn på heterogene skoler. Det støtter den såkaldte kontakthypotese og afkræfter den såkaldte konflikthypotese. Der var ikke en kla…
The institutional logic of images of the poor and welfare recipients: A comparative study of British, Swedish and Danish newspapers
The article investigates how the poor and welfare recipients are depicted in British, Danish and Swedish newspapers. The study was inspired by American media studies that have documented a negative stereotypic way of portraying the poor and welfare recipients, especially when they are African Americans. The article argues that there is an institutional welfare regime logic behind the way the poor and welfare recipients are depicted in the mass me…
The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes: How Welfare Regimes Influence Public Support
Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes so reluctant to support welfare policy? And why are people who live in social democratic welfare regimes so keen to support welfare policy? This article seeks to give an institutional account of these cross-national differences. Previous attempts to link institutions and welfare attitudes have not been convincing. The empirical studies have had large difficulties in finding the expected effects f…
How three narratives of modernity justify economic inequality
The acceptance of income differences varies across countries. This article suggests belief in three narratives of modernity to account for this: the 'tunnel effect,' related to perceptions of generational mobility; the 'procedural justice effect,' related to the perceived fairness in the process of getting ahead; and the 'middle-class effect,' related to perceptions of the social structure of society. The importance of the suggested narratives is…
The institutional logic of images of the poor and welfare recipients: A comparative study of British, Swedish and Danish newspapers
The article investigates how the poor and welfare recipients are depicted in British, Danish and Swedish newspapers. The study was inspired by American media studies that have documented a negative stereotypic way of portraying the poor and welfare recipients, especially when they are African Americans. The article argues that there is an institutional welfare regime logic behind the way the poor and welfare recipients are depicted in the mass me…
Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Support for Welfare: Is the American Experience Replicated in Britain, Sweden and Denmark
The link between ethnic heterogeneity and public support for welfare policy is debated. The thesis of a negative relationship is supported by much American research. Historically the race issue has blocked a number of American welfare schemes; across the United States ethnically heterogeneous states have less generous benefits, and citizens having negative attitudes towards blacks often oppose welfare. The research question is: To what extent wil…
Deservingness put into practice: Constructing the (un)deservingness of migrants in four European countries
The increased comparative research on perceptions of public welfare deservingness studies the extent to which different subgroups of citizens are deemed worthy or unworthy of receiving help from the welfare state. The concept of deservingness criteria plays a crucial role in this research, as it theorizes a universal heuristic that citizens apply to rank people in terms of their welfare deservingness. Due to the mainly quantitative nature of the …
Revitalizing the 'civic' and 'ethnic' distinction. Perceptions of nationhood across two dimensions, 44 countries and two decades
This article describes how contemporary publics think about the nation along Kohn's classic distinction between "civic" and "ethnic" nationalism. The article makes three contributes to the existing literature. Firstly, it introduces a new statistical tool, multi-classification-analysis, to establish and analyse the two-dimensional structure found in this and previous studies. Secondly, it derives at an alternative interpretation with a first dime…
How Welfare Regimes Generate and Erode Social Capital: The Impact of Underclass Phenomena
The origins of social trust have been much discussed in recent years. This attention is understandable, as social trust is perceived to be a mechanism for overcoming the pri mary social problem highlighted by rational choice theory: how actors without mutual trust logically would choose a suboptimal solution (the prisoner's dilemma problem). Social trust is thus believed to be very important in solving collective problems, mak ing democracy work,…
How New Economic Ideas Changed the Danish Welfare State: The Case of Neoliberal Ideas and Highly Organized Social Democratic Interests
The article argues that new economic ideas have exerted an independent causal effect on policy change in three major areas in the Danish welfare state: unemployment insurance, early retirement, and taxation. Thereby the Danish case bears resemblance to the paradigmatic shift from Keynesianism to monetarism in the United Kingdom. However, in the Danish case this paradigmatic shift did not coincide with a political shift to a right‐wing government.…
The political logic of labour market reforms and popular images of target groups
Even though the shift from `passive' to `active' labour market policy exhibits large cross-national variations, all examples seem to share two common characteristics: (a) the first group exposed to the new policies and the group exposed to the harshest policies was young people on social assistance; and (b) as the target group gradually came to include `ordinary' unemployed people, most countries made exceptions for the oldest unemployed people. …
Municipal Size and Democracy: A Critical Analysis of the Argument of Proximity Based on the Case of Denmark
The Nordic welfare states are based on a unique system of highly decentralized municipalities. However, in Denmark a discussion about merging municipalities has emerged. The discussion has kept within the framework of the classic dichotomy between capacity and proximity, or been limited to considerations of effectiveness versus democracy. The assumptions behind both arguments can be nuanced and problematized, and a new study, based on an extensiv…
The myth of unadaptable gender roles: Attitudes towards women’s paid work among immigrants across 30 European countries
It is a predominant assumption in contemporary political and academic debates that gender roles and attitudes supporting women’s paid work among immigrants are deep-rooted and stable over time. However, the actual work–family orientations among immigrants are rarely studied. The purpose of this article is to study to what extent and at what pace immigrants in general adapt to the attitudes towards women’s paid work that prevail in the host countr…
Why Public Employment Services Always Fail. Double‐sided Asymmetric Information and the Placement of Low‐skill Workers in Six European Countries
It has been a general finding across Europe that very few job matches are facilitated by public employment services (PES).The article explains this failure by highlighting the existence of a double‐sided asymmetric information problem on the labour market. It is argued that although a PES potentially reduces search costs, both employers and employees have strong incentives not to use PES. The reason is that employers try to avoid the ‘worst’ empl…
Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services
The article theorises how covering social risks through cash transfers and in-kind services shapes public attitudes towards including/excluding immigrants from these programmes in Western European destination countries. The argument is that public attitudes are more restrictive of granting immigrants access to benefits than to services. This hypothesis is tested across ten social protection programmes using original survey data collected in Denma…
Policy paradigms and cross-national policy (mis)learning from the Danish employment miracle
Denmark and the Netherlands are often cited as models of successful active labour market policies. This 'employment miracle' has been credited to the new active labour market policy which is seen as a possible model for other European countries. One could even say that 'activation policy' is seen as a 'third way' to overcome the difficult dilemma between equality and employment and has become a dominant policy fashion, spread by such agencies as …
The institutional logic of giving migrants access to social benefits and services
The article analyses how the programmatic structure of welfare schemes in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany shape public perceptions of and preferences for migrants’ entitlement to social benefits and services. First, the article finds that despite high complexity and the presence of some severe misconceptions, the entitlement criteria of migrants within existing social benefits and services do shape public perceptions of reality. Second, the …
The hidden European consensus on migrant selection: A conjoint survey experiment in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark
Education and trust: Exploring the association across social relationships and nations
Contemporary research on trust has come to assume that education has a universal positive effect on trust. Using the survey item that has dominated the trust literature -'whether one believes most people can be trusted or one can never be too careful' - education is often found to be one of the strongest predictors of trust, more important than age, income, wealth, health or any another individual characteristic. Thus there are indeed reasons to …
Who can become a full member of the club?—Results from a conjoint survey experiment on public attitudes about the naturalisation of non‐EU migrants in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark
In this article, we study attitudes towards the naturalisation of non‐European (EU) migrants in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark. This is done using a conjoint experiment. Respondents are presented with profiles of non‐EU‐migrants, whose attributes are varied over labour market status, education, language skills, time lived in the destination country, family relations, religious background and gender. We find a preference for granting…
Migrants' support for welfare state spending in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands
This contribution describes differences between 10 migrant groups and natives in their attitudes towards government spending in three residence countries: Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Previous research provided evidence that “migrants” as a catch‐all category of people from different origins are in favor of more government spending on social welfare. We study to what extent support for government spending can be explained by self‐intere…
Structural unemployment. An analysis of recruitment and selection mechanisms based on panel data among Danish long‐term unemployed
The perception of structural unemployment – summarised in the notion of ‘Eurosclerosis’– became almost hegemonic during the 1990s. Policy makers all over Europe tried, by means of supply‐side policies, to counteract the lack of incentives in the developed European welfare states, the lack of qualification on the post‐industrial labour markets and the personal decay due to long‐term unemployment. However, based on the critical case of Denmark, thi…
Coming to Europe: American Exceptionalism and American Migrants’ Adaption to Comprehensive Welfare States
The United States has not developed a comprehensive welfare state, unlike most other Western countries. This has been subject to a number of different interpretations. One of the prominent theories is that Americans carry a special creed of individuality and liberty that can be traced back to the establishment of the American nation-state. This cultural “American exceptionalism” is argued to be a hindrance to welfare state development in the past…
Why are minorities poor? Cross-Atlantic explanations for poverty and public support for redistribution
The article describes public explanations of economic deprivation among minorities and their correlation with support for redistribution. The point of departure is the well-established American case of majority perceptions of Black people, which we compare with majority perceptionsof Black people in Canada and Muslims in the UK, France, Denmark,Sweden and Italy. The study draws on original survey data collected in each country in 2021-2022 and fi…
Integration through crossing circles natives’ opportunity pools and diversification of friendships in a transforming Europe
The article studies the social relationships of natives in the destination countries of migrants. Specifically, the article estimates the share of non-natives in natives’ friendship opportunity pools (FOP) and its correlation with natives only having native friends. Danish data is used due to a unique possibility of linking register information, allowing the establishment of an objective measurement of FOP at various levels, and survey informatio…
Introducing objective tests in Palestine Refugee schools
Introducing objective tests in Palestine Refugee schools
Municipal Size and Democracy: A Critical Analysis of the Argument of Proximity Based on the Case of Denmark
The Nordic welfare states are based on a unique system of highly decentralized municipalities. However, in Denmark a discussion about merging municipalities has emerged. The discussion has kept within the framework of the classic dichotomy between capacity and proximity, or been limited to considerations of effectiveness versus democracy. The assumptions behind both arguments can be nuanced and problematized, and a new study, based on an extensiv…
Policy paradigms and cross-national policy (mis)learning from the Danish employment miracle
Denmark and the Netherlands are often cited as models of successful active labour market policies. This 'employment miracle' has been credited to the new active labour market policy which is seen as a possible model for other European countries. One could even say that 'activation policy' is seen as a 'third way' to overcome the difficult dilemma between equality and employment and has become a dominant policy fashion, spread by such agencies as …
Structural unemployment. An analysis of recruitment and selection mechanisms based on panel data among Danish long‐term unemployed
The perception of structural unemployment – summarised in the notion of ‘Eurosclerosis’– became almost hegemonic during the 1990s. Policy makers all over Europe tried, by means of supply‐side policies, to counteract the lack of incentives in the developed European welfare states, the lack of qualification on the post‐industrial labour markets and the personal decay due to long‐term unemployment. However, based on the critical case of Denmark, thi…
How Welfare Regimes Generate and Erode Social Capital: The Impact of Underclass Phenomena
The origins of social trust have been much discussed in recent years. This attention is understandable, as social trust is perceived to be a mechanism for overcoming the pri mary social problem highlighted by rational choice theory: how actors without mutual trust logically would choose a suboptimal solution (the prisoner's dilemma problem). Social trust is thus believed to be very important in solving collective problems, mak ing democracy work,…
The political logic of labour market reforms and popular images of target groups
Even though the shift from `passive' to `active' labour market policy exhibits large cross-national variations, all examples seem to share two common characteristics: (a) the first group exposed to the new policies and the group exposed to the harshest policies was young people on social assistance; and (b) as the target group gradually came to include `ordinary' unemployed people, most countries made exceptions for the oldest unemployed people. …
The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes: How Welfare Regimes Influence Public Support
Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes so reluctant to support welfare policy? And why are people who live in social democratic welfare regimes so keen to support welfare policy? This article seeks to give an institutional account of these cross-national differences. Previous attempts to link institutions and welfare attitudes have not been convincing. The empirical studies have had large difficulties in finding the expected effects f…
How New Economic Ideas Changed the Danish Welfare State: The Case of Neoliberal Ideas and Highly Organized Social Democratic Interests
The article argues that new economic ideas have exerted an independent causal effect on policy change in three major areas in the Danish welfare state: unemployment insurance, early retirement, and taxation. Thereby the Danish case bears resemblance to the paradigmatic shift from Keynesianism to monetarism in the United Kingdom. However, in the Danish case this paradigmatic shift did not coincide with a political shift to a right‐wing government.…
Why Public Employment Services Always Fail. Double‐sided Asymmetric Information and the Placement of Low‐skill Workers in Six European Countries
It has been a general finding across Europe that very few job matches are facilitated by public employment services (PES).The article explains this failure by highlighting the existence of a double‐sided asymmetric information problem on the labour market. It is argued that although a PES potentially reduces search costs, both employers and employees have strong incentives not to use PES. The reason is that employers try to avoid the ‘worst’ empl…
Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Support for Welfare: Is the American Experience Replicated in Britain, Sweden and Denmark
The link between ethnic heterogeneity and public support for welfare policy is debated. The thesis of a negative relationship is supported by much American research. Historically the race issue has blocked a number of American welfare schemes; across the United States ethnically heterogeneous states have less generous benefits, and citizens having negative attitudes towards blacks often oppose welfare. The research question is: To what extent wil…
The Rise and Fall of Social Cohesion
The Rise and Fall of Social Cohesion: The Construction and De-construction of Social Trust in the US, UK, Sweden and Denmark
Afhandlingens spørgsmål er, hvorfor tilliden mellem mennesker er faldende i USA og Storbritannien, mens den er stigende i Danmark og Sverige. Afhandlingens overordnede tema er således, hvordan social sammenhængskraft kan undergraves og opbygges. Afhandlingen giver en social konstruktivistisk forklaring på spørgsmålet. Det vises, at opfattelsen af at leve i et meritokratisk middelklasse samfund er af afgørende betydning for vores vurdering af medb…
Når hudfarven forsvinder: Hvordan etnisk blandede folkeskoler skaber tillid til indvandrere
Artiklen analyserer, hvorvidt blandede skoler skaber tillid mellem etniske danskere og indvandrere. Ved hjælp af et eksperimentelt design dokumenteres det, at etnisk danske børn på homogene ”hvide” skoler har mindre tillid til personer med anden hudfarve, mens den tilsvarende effekt er fraværende blandt etnisk danske børn på heterogene skoler. Det støtter den såkaldte kontakthypotese og afkræfter den såkaldte konflikthypotese. Der var ikke en kla…
The institutional logic of images of the poor and welfare recipients: A comparative study of British, Swedish and Danish newspapers
The article investigates how the poor and welfare recipients are depicted in British, Danish and Swedish newspapers. The study was inspired by American media studies that have documented a negative stereotypic way of portraying the poor and welfare recipients, especially when they are African Americans. The article argues that there is an institutional welfare regime logic behind the way the poor and welfare recipients are depicted in the mass me…
The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes
Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes reluctant to support welfare policy? And conversely, why are people who live in social democratic welfare regimes so keen to support it? These core questions lie at the heart of this intriguing book. By examining how different welfare regimes influence public support for welfare policy, the book explores the institutional settings of different regimes and how each produces its own support. While …
Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes: How Welfare Regimes Influence Public Support
The myth of unadaptable gender roles: Attitudes towards women’s paid work among immigrants across 30 European countries
It is a predominant assumption in contemporary political and academic debates that gender roles and attitudes supporting women’s paid work among immigrants are deep-rooted and stable over time. However, the actual work–family orientations among immigrants are rarely studied. The purpose of this article is to study to what extent and at what pace immigrants in general adapt to the attitudes towards women’s paid work that prevail in the host countr…
Education and trust: Exploring the association across social relationships and nations
Contemporary research on trust has come to assume that education has a universal positive effect on trust. Using the survey item that has dominated the trust literature -'whether one believes most people can be trusted or one can never be too careful' - education is often found to be one of the strongest predictors of trust, more important than age, income, wealth, health or any another individual characteristic. Thus there are indeed reasons to …
How three narratives of modernity justify economic inequality
The acceptance of income differences varies across countries. This article suggests belief in three narratives of modernity to account for this: the 'tunnel effect,' related to perceptions of generational mobility; the 'procedural justice effect,' related to the perceived fairness in the process of getting ahead; and the 'middle-class effect,' related to perceptions of the social structure of society. The importance of the suggested narratives is…
Revitalizing the 'civic' and 'ethnic' distinction. Perceptions of nationhood across two dimensions, 44 countries and two decades
This article describes how contemporary publics think about the nation along Kohn's classic distinction between "civic" and "ethnic" nationalism. The article makes three contributes to the existing literature. Firstly, it introduces a new statistical tool, multi-classification-analysis, to establish and analyse the two-dimensional structure found in this and previous studies. Secondly, it derives at an alternative interpretation with a first dime…
Migrants' support for welfare state spending in Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands
This contribution describes differences between 10 migrant groups and natives in their attitudes towards government spending in three residence countries: Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. Previous research provided evidence that “migrants” as a catch‐all category of people from different origins are in favor of more government spending on social welfare. We study to what extent support for government spending can be explained by self‐intere…
The institutional logic of giving migrants access to social benefits and services
The article analyses how the programmatic structure of welfare schemes in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany shape public perceptions of and preferences for migrants’ entitlement to social benefits and services. First, the article finds that despite high complexity and the presence of some severe misconceptions, the entitlement criteria of migrants within existing social benefits and services do shape public perceptions of reality. Second, the …
Coming to Europe: American Exceptionalism and American Migrants’ Adaption to Comprehensive Welfare States
The United States has not developed a comprehensive welfare state, unlike most other Western countries. This has been subject to a number of different interpretations. One of the prominent theories is that Americans carry a special creed of individuality and liberty that can be traced back to the establishment of the American nation-state. This cultural “American exceptionalism” is argued to be a hindrance to welfare state development in the past…
Deservingness put into practice: Constructing the (un)deservingness of migrants in four European countries
The increased comparative research on perceptions of public welfare deservingness studies the extent to which different subgroups of citizens are deemed worthy or unworthy of receiving help from the welfare state. The concept of deservingness criteria plays a crucial role in this research, as it theorizes a universal heuristic that citizens apply to rank people in terms of their welfare deservingness. Due to the mainly quantitative nature of the …
Migrants’ Attitudes and the Welfare State: The Danish Melting Pot
Analysing two major surveys of 14 different migrant groups connected to Danish register data, this insightful book explores what migrants think of the welfare state. It investigates the question of whether migrants assimilate to the ideas of extensive state intervention in markets and families or if they retain the attitudes and values that are prevalent in their countries of origin.
Political science (26 works) · Economics (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Demographic economics (15 works) · Welfare (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (10 works)