We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical … immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily depends on native’s preferences for private versus public good … spending. We empirically test our theoretical hypotheses, the 'fiscal effect' and the 'anti-social effect' of immigration using …

I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of …

experienced little change in the heterogeneity of their populations. We examine impacts of immigration on welfare benefit rates of … there is limited evidence of increased immigration on any of these types other than families with children. Even in this …

immigration policy in a spatial context. Keeping the US-Mexico context in mind, we assume that labor from a source nation enters a … to relatively high levels of illegal immigration. While inter-state migration costs moderate such overprovision …/under-provision, extreme levels of inter-state immobility may lead to too little illegal immigration, and an overprovision of local goods. …

welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …