studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In … immigration opinion for 20 countries. The recession that began in 2008 provides a useful test because its severity varied so … economy. At the country level, pro-immigration opinion is negatively related to the share of immigrants in the population and …

redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of immigration. Under the first scenario, immigration has a larger impact on …-market determinants of immigration attitudes. In countries where natives are on average more skilled than immigrants, individual income is … negatively correlated with pro immigration preferences, while individual skill is positively correlated with them. These …

particular, trade and labour economics theories of labour markets predict that the correlation between pro-immigration attitudes … country. Skilled individuals should favour immigration in countries where natives are more skilled than immigrants and oppose … natives to immigrants are consistent with these predictions. Individual skill and pro-immigration attitudes are positively …

I analyze individual attitudes towards trade and immigration in comparative terms. I find that individuals are on … average more pro-trade than pro-immigration across several countries. I identify a key source of this difference: the cleavage … in trade preferences, absent in immigration attitudes, between individuals working in traded as opposed to non …

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host … family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …

The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over … immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …

natives. This result means that immigration reduces seigniorage (per person) as measured by banknote orders. A 1% increase in …

-country correlation between the election success of ERW parties and immigration. Motivated by this evidence, we explore one potentially … important channel through which immigration may drive support for ERW parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters … features of the history of immigration into Austria to identify a causal effect of immigration on ERW voting results. We argue …