therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … border and to airports to account for endogenous migration patterns. Results are robust to estimations using first …

robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …

controls at the Italian frontier. With the border controls in place, groups of migrants and asylum seekers who had planned to … cross the border irregularly were pushed back to the Italian lands. With rejected migrants clustering at the border, natives … areas of Liguria, Italy, between 2011 and 2019. It documents that the backlog of migrants in the Italian border area was …

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that witnessed a Nazi influx exhibit significantly higher voting shares for …

How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework … productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …

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 …

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and … country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal spending on …

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 …

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … by both academics and policy makers. We study the role of labor protection in shaping native preferences over migration … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …