Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … defection from worker-supported political-establishment parties to new-entrant anti-immigration political candidates and parties …

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via …

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 … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and …

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …

This paper investigates the welfare consequences of immigration policies in a model with two types of labour, skilled … immigration cost and causes immigration of one type of labour - on the welfare of natives when the other type of labour and … complementary in production (as attested by many empirical studies), then a decrease in the immigration cost of the net fiscal …

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for … the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …

.g., attitudes to-ward neighbors or migrants). Relative friending is higher in areas with lower unemployment and more completed …We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on …