How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration … of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In … are more likely to believe that refugees are a resource for the economy and the culture, viewing them as an opportunity …

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting … in exogeneous variations in the number of refugees per county within and across states. Our estimates suggest that …

important factors to determine an individual's willingness to interact with refugees. …

refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the …

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people … uncorrelated with ethnic, linguistic or genetic diversity. Our main result is that the diversity of skilled immigration relates … gravity model to predict the share and diversity of immigration based on exogenous bilateral variables. The results are robust …

worsen crime. In contrast, native opinions on the impact of immigration on culture and the labor market are unrelated to the …

Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most … to immigration? This paper reports results from a large-scale experiment conducted in Japan, a country with widespread … anti-immigration sentiment. Embedded in a comprehension study, we randomly exposed a large national sample of citizens to …

After the end of World War II in 1945, millions of refugees arrived in what in 1949 became the Federal Republic of … dissolved in 1949. The spatial discontinuity arose because the US zone admitted refugees during the 1945-1949 occupation period … refugees in the former US zone. We estimate that exposure to the arrival of refugees raised income per capita by around 13% and …