We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …

coefficients show that immigration policies balancing the number of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants from outside the EU …In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on …

increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …

. However, the impact of immigration on natives in self-employment has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … of plausible parameter values, the model predicts small negative effects of immigration on native self-employment rates … and earnings. Using 1980 and 1990 Census microdata, we then examine the relationship between changes in immigration and …

Immigration is sometimes claimed to be a key contributor to economic growth. Few academic studies, however, examine the … direct link between immigration and growth. And the evidence on the outcomes that the literature does examine (such as the … what we know about the relationship between immigration and growth. The canonical Solow model implies that a one …

We study the immigration policy that maximizes the welfare of the native population in an economy where the government … different tax systems for immigrants and natives, free immigration is optimal. It is also optimal to use the tax system to … encourage the immigration of high-skill workers and discourage that of low-skill workers. When immigrants and natives must be …

We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and dynamism in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … immigration, we use 130 years of detailed data on migrations from foreign countries to US counties to isolate quasi … recent decades. We show four main results. First, immigration has a positive impact on innovation, measured by the patenting …

Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have … similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing … toward immigration. We use data for 21 countries in the 2002 European Social Survey, which included a series of questions on …

which the social security system influences the young decisive voter's attitudes in favor of a more liberal immigration …