literature on the effects of racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution in the US and Europe …

toward immigration. We use data for 21 countries in the 2002 European Social Survey, which included a series of questions on …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 …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …

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 … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …

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

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans …

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 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 …