natives and migrants in eastern Germany, a region characterized by anti-immigrant sentiment. Using probability-based survey …. Respondents who receive the signal show more supportive attitudes toward immigration, with effect sizes being more pronounced for … information campaigns on immigration. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 rightwing political parties in Europe. Empirical …

Using a new survey and experimental data, we investigate how information on inequality and immigration affects …