Altruism towards refugees and perceived interpersonal closeness
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2017-05-22
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en
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The increasing number of refugees fleeing to the European Union including, the Netherlands, have a significant burden on the government budget as well as have some relevant implications on the economic and social life. In order to reduce these effects, integration of the refugees into the recipient society is urgent. In this research, we investigate the attitude, in particular the altruism of the Dutch, - as the recipient society towards refugees - through laboratory experiments. We measure altruism by dictator game. This research examines the perceived intergroup and interpersonal closeness towards refugees as an influencing factor of the degree of altruism. Besides, perceived closeness, we examine other factors, which can influence the degree of altruism. We find that people are as altruistic towards refugees as to their own compatriots – or even more. While, we do not find perceived intergroup closeness relevant to explain altruism, we find some evidence of the relevance of perceived closeness to the refugees as an explanation for the degree of altruism. Lastly, we find that while Social Dominance Orientation highly correlated with the level of altruism, Unconditional Respect only moderately correlated with altruism towards refugees.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen