We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest unambiguously smaller beneficial impacts of increasing the …

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing … studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In … immigration opinion for 20 countries. The recession that began in 2008 provides a useful test because its severity varied so …

Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger … the slump and immigration policy. First, although immigration flows have responded to the slump, and immigrants have borne … recession for Europe as a whole, attitudes to immigration have not changed very much, and they have been influenced more by …

immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the impact of a tougher policy environment on …

The legal system has entered the immigration policy framework via class action suits which force immigrant receiving … countries to address shortfalls in their immigration and citizenship ascension policies. This paper addresses the role of class …

. As a further contribution, we study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of the host country and …