using information on media consumption by migrants in Italy. A widely documented crime provides a quasi-experimental setting …

This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about … confirm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that Australians …, median incomes, or crime levels. This result is in line with the economic effects that people typically expect but does not …

Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by … amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We address the potential endogeneity of the "legalization treatment" by …, regions in which a higher share of immigrants obtained legal status experienced a greater decline in non-EU immigrant crime …

return to Italy. Additionally, we uncover significant effects throughout the wage distribution, revealing that tax …