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design effective post-immigration policies. …
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Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via …
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In recent decades, the immigration of workers and refugees to Europe has increased substantially, and the composition … heterogeneity on preferences for redistribution. -- income redistribution ; ethnic heterogeneity ; immigration …
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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 …
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Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts are...
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We utilise information experiments embedded in a representative population survey to elicit the German public's attitude towards the right of asylum. We randomly assign the interviewees to different groups and 'treat' each group with different information about the asylum-seekers that came to...
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We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally assimilate into the host society or preserve their own cultural norms. We argue that when national identity is a source of intrinsic utility, the longevity of national identity...
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How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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away money from the group. Our results speak to a long-standing debate on the causes of racism and discrimination and …
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quantitative criteria to confirm that Israel is subject to discrimination. To explain the motives for discrimination, we present a … deflection of criticism. The model includes a role for traditional prejudice. Our conclusions more generally concern political …
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