affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes … of individuals towards immigration after accounting for their age and other individual characteristics. We test this … “societal population aging” is the old-age dependency ratio. “Attitudes” are taken from immigration related questions in eight …

. 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 … particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis …

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … heterogeneity of immigrant groups with respect to gender, age, country of origin and – if applicable – refugee status, and study … naturalized immigrants. We also take into account possible spillover effects of immigrants on criminal activities by Germans …

With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage … labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants …

Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … burden of financing welfare-dependent immigrants. We explain the contradiction by accounting for immigrants as future voters … defection from worker-supported political-establishment parties to new-entrant anti-immigration political candidates and parties …

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 …

Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on native wages & labor supply. We … immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden …