Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we … first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then … provide respondents in the treatment group with research evidence showing no adverse labor market impacts of immigration …

the two groups. We find inequality among immigrants to be consistently higher than inequality among natives. We also … natives. In the UK, where immigrants are net fiscal contributors, this is not a factor that aggravates economic inequality …This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This …

The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe …. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and … significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of local inventors in German counties in 2001-2010. For causal …

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response … negative wage responses among low-skilled natives. Overall, the analysis suggests that labor protection affects vote outcomes …

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via … the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants’ role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced …

individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect …In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between … changes in education and region of origin are accounted for, we find that the unobservable skills of newly arriving immigrants …

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …