Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … union membership, correlate to bureaucratic decisions made at every stage of immigration enforcement. …

nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other …

We revisit Max Weber’s hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …

experience with immigration can curb nationalism. …During recent waves of immigration, support for nationalist parties has increased in many countries, but the political … backlash against immigration differs strongly across regions. We identify an underlying cause for these differences by studying …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …

provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in the labor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …