In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … does not seem to be strongly affected by the recent increase in the flow of immigrants. This is different from the …

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel …

-right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters' neighborhoods. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ … significantly positive effect on FPÖ votes of the residential proximity of immigrants and citizens, explaining roughly a quarter of … the cross-community variance in those votes. It is the proximity of low- and medium-skilled immigrants that drives this …

(especially that of the former Yugoslavia). We concentrate on entry into unemployment of young male workers who are thought to … compete most with new immigrants. Our results indicate that the detrimental impact -- if it exists at all -- is only minor and …

natives. Simple labour supply analysis demonstrates that these effects depend upon whether immigrants and natives act as … foreign workers in the firm. Employing many immigrants in the firm, on the other hand, may also have an increasing effect on …

important channel through which immigration may drive support for ERW parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters … plausible source of exogenous variation in the more recent spatial distribution of immigrants. We find that the percentage … immigrants in a community is an important causal factor behind support for the extreme right, explaining roughly a quarter of the …

unemployment forecast was estimated. For unemployed without such a forecast, the effect is much smaller. The paper also shows that …