We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …

What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have … immigration density to native flight and relatively slower housing price appreciation. Further evidence indicates that these …

Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination … immigration inflow equal to 1% of a city’s population is associated with increases in average rents and housing values of about 1 …. I use instrumental variables based on a "shift-share" of national levels of immigration into metropolitan areas. An …

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …

primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … proportionately larger non-white and lower paid white immigration. …

It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a …

shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …

from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a … display the most tolerant views both before and after the increase in immigration and asylum. However, characteristics such as …