We investigate the impact of immigration on public budgets using administrative data from German districts (Kreise … immigration, the local-level effects in Germany remain relatively unexplored. Our study analyzes how immigration influences public … different local levels, migration groups, and expenditure categories, when studying the gains and burdens of immigration in …

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 …

We conduct a survey experiment on the effect of information provision on attitudes towards immigration in Germany. The … focus lies on two theory-based economic channels, labor market and welfare state concerns, and immigration policy … robustly decreases welfare state concerns about immigration. There are slightly less pronounced effects on the labor market and …

about adverse effects of immigration on the welfare state. On the contrary, different types of signals offset their effects … heterogeneity, we find that prior beliefs about immigration explain conditional average treatment effects. While attitudinal change …

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by … focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on factor prices and … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by …

immigration hurts people already in the country regardless of whether or not non-traded goods exist. The presence of international …

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 …