. We split the postwar decades in three periods: the catching-up period, the overt populism period of 1973-1993, and the … 1993-2008 of stealth populism. In each period, we identify the important players to see how they managed to forge a …. The covert populism of the last period used an unsustainable expansion of foreign borrowing to allow for an …

In recent decades, the immigration of workers and refugees to Europe has increased substantially, and the composition …

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 …

We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in … the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two …

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 …