13:15 - 15:30
Friday-Panel
Chair/s:
Franziska Deeg
Discussant/s:
Stefanie Walter
Meeting Room I

Yannick Stiller
Who Rebels on Trade Policy? Analyzing Voting Patterns of Legislators

Franziska Deeg
Global Aspects of Deservingness: How international trade risks and migration flows affect pension deservingness
perception in Brazil

Lorenzo Crippa
The Conditional Arm of the Law. The Effect of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention on Foreign Direct Investment

Robert Huber, Yannick Stiller, Andreas Dür
A new approach to measure economic competitiveness on a subnational level.
Global Aspects of Deservingness: How international trade risks and migration flows affect pension deservingness perception in Brazil
Franziska Deeg
University of Cologne

Access to social policy benefits is highly conflictual, especially in contexts of tight budgets and restrained opportunities in global credit markets. Previous research has identified a set of factors determining the deservingness to access welfare goods from the viewpoint of public opinion, among which nationality in the form of in/out-group dynamics plays a role. Out-group status can, however, also be determined through labor market status (formal/informal), party identity or other attitudes on, e. g., globalization or within-country migration. A more differentiating view on control, reciprocity and identity taking into account globalization effects, has, so far, been neglected in academic research. In this paper, I look at control, reciprocity and identity while keeping need constant in the middle-income country context of Brazil. I make use of a Conjoint experiment that was conducted as part of a larger, original, sub-national survey in 2019. Respondents received fictional, randomly assembled profiles of beneficiaries and were asked to indicate whom of the two profiles they would give access to a pension. Preliminary results show that especially globalization losers (individuals that lost their job to offshoring) are deemed deserving to a pension. Reciprocity does not seem to play a big role in this context since formal workers are perceived as less deserving, but nationality does determine access.