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 …

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 rightwing political parties in Europe. Empirical …

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal spending on … education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country. …

Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue …-skill immigration. I formalise this hypothesis theoretically in a partial equilibrium model with constant elasticity of substitution in … which technology leads to employment polarization, and policy makers can vote on immigration legislation. I empirically …

The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … bargaining between unions and employers. We show that immigration is unambiguously beneficial if the wage elasticity of labor … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration …

authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration …

of an aging population and a declining working age population, hence highlighting the pertinence of immigration as a … the pertinence of immigration as a possible solution. …

immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden. …

We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … seekers get back the money paid for the certificate. Immigration is therewith regulated more efficiently than today. Not all …