nationalism and to have hostile relations with immigrants. Multiple equilibria are possible and better schooling may eliminate …

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic … the total number of immigrants and H1B visas with data on lobbying expenditures associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …

immigration from a theoretical and empirical point of view. Our analysis supports the role played by economic channels (labour … and the very low fractions of voters favouring immigration are consistent with the median voter framework. At the same … time, given the extent of individual-level opposition to immigration that appears in the data, it is somewhat puzzling, in …

This paper analyzes the political sustainability of the welfare state in an environment where immigration is the main … demographic force and where governments are able to influence the size and skill composition of immigration flows. Specifically, I … present a dynamic political-economy model where both income redistribution and immigration policy are chosen by majority vote …

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find … that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political … platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are: big cities behave differently, with no impact of immigration on …

This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation …