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yet aware of the benefits the community could have from immigrant labour and migrants’
contributions and taxes to the social security system (Figure 5). Last but not least, 44.8
percent of respondents expressed a fear that foreigners would take jobs away from the
local people (Figure 6). It seems that the residents of Slovenia do not link migration to a
solution for the effects of low fertility.
Figure 4: Agreement with the statement “Foreigners are necessary to do the work which the
Slovenians no longer want to do” (Source: Population, Family and Welfare: attitudes towards
policy and measures, 2000).
70,0
Intercultural dialogue between lip service and practice
60,0
50,0
Shatres in %
40,0
30,0
33,2
37,5
20,0
17,0
10,0
0,0
Strongly
underestimated
(more than 75%)
Underestimated (25
to 75%)
10,2
More or less
correctly estimated
(+- 25%)
2,2
Overestimated (25
to 75%)
Strongly
overestimated
(more than 75%)
Figure 5: Agreement with the statement “Legal foreign workers support the social security
system with their contributions and taxes” (Source: Population, Family and Welfare: attitudes
towards policy and measures, 2000).
70,0
60,0
50,0
Shatres in %
40,0
30,0
33,2
37,5
20,0
17,0
10,0
10,2
2,2
0,0
Strongly
underestimated
(more than 75%)
Underestimated (25
to 75%)
More or less
correctly estimated
(+- 25%)
Overestimated (25
to 75%)
Strongly
overestimated
(more than 75%)
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