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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 …
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Using data from two representative and large-scale population surveys with more than 4000 participants, we investigate the effect of randomized priming interventions on attitudes towards immigrants. We document robust null effects of these interventions under two experimental settings, across...
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Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees’ integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts...
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Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
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To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...
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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 …
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We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...
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immigration by approximately 6 and 3 persons by 1000 inhabitants in both countries. These results are also corroborated with the …
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. Based on a simple model, we propose that what partly explains the particular internal structure of political ideology is …
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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 …
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