How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration … of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In … more likely to believe that refugees are a resource for the economy and the culture, viewing them as an opportunity rather …

How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework …

experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and … of all treatments for refugees at the two-month follow-up, and suggestive evidence of four-month impacts for the cash … grant; liquidity appears to be a key barrier to employment for refugees. …

We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on … a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence or refugees fleeing wars in Ukraine or African countries. We also … employ a novel measure, the share donated in cash. While donations indicated less support for African and Ukrainian refugees …

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 …

-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 largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …

steps to address this gap, our study focuses on Switzerland, where mobility restrictions on exogenously assigned refugees …, especially for petty crimes and drug offenses. In light of limited (short-run) repercussions for refugees’ labor market …

provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in the labor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …

affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes … of individuals towards immigration after accounting for their age and other individual characteristics. We test this … "societal population aging" is the old-age dependency ratio. "Attitudes" are taken from immigration related questions in eight …