This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …

This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by … providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in … the second part of the chapter, we provide a survey of the large and growing literature on the recent European immigration …

total factor productivity of the receiving economy. We assemble panel data on immigration flows, output, employment and …. We find that immigration has a large, positive effect on the employment rate of the receiving country. However, it leaves …Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given …

This paper analyzes the political sustainability of the welfare state in an environment where immigration is the main … demographic force and where governments are able to influence the size and skill composition of immigration flows. Specifically, I … present a dynamic political-economy model where both income redistribution and immigration policy are chosen by majority vote …

-economic groups. The analysis shows that the employment of older individuals, less-educated workers, and women fell disproportionately …, despite the practically complete return to in-person instruction. The paper's more novel findings refer to the employment of … Venezuelan migrants. The pandemic lowered their employment rate by a similar magnitude as for Ecuadorians. However, between 2021 …