I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance … redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income …

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non …-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives' expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …

With the rise of the far-right parties in the European parliamentary elections, concerns over immigration and national … identity have again come into the limelight. In this paper, we document the empirical relationships between immigration, native … concerns over the economic and cultural impact of immigration, and the rise of right-wing political parties in Europe …

state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …

We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally … immigrant threat and, thus, affects individuals' beliefs about the need for immigrants' cultural assimilation. Empirical … national identity, first, exhibits a robustly negative effect on the strength of individual preferences in favor of immigrants …

geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments … of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source countries, we illustrate the important role of distance, both …

about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in the labor …Integration of immigrants is a two-way process, the success of which depends both on immigrants and on natives. We … provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves …

special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German … authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …