concerns over potential consequences of certain kinds of immigration and are linked to individual characteristics that increase …-mitigating: Affluent, high-immigration countries more easily sustain tolerance for the same reasons they attract immigrants (opportunities …) but are more prone to threatened responses since these are provoked by immigration characteristics overrepresented in …

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

This paper studies the market microstructure of pre-industrial Europe. In particular we investigate the institution of … merchant towns in Central and Western Europe from the late 13th to the end of the 17th century. We show that towns implemented …

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …