the long-run viability of society as a whole. One possible solution is to permit more immigration, which will both … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …

We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We … with the hypothesis that immigration left its footprint on American ideology via cultural transmission from immigrants to …

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 …

This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage … and attitudes toward immigration. The analysis focuses on within-individual variations over time, addressing ideological … self-selection into channels. We find that increased coverage of immigration polarizes attitudes, with initially moderate …

of the participants with five statistics about immigration, before evaluating their attitude towards immigrants with self …, although it does not change people's policy preferences regarding immigration. Republicans become more willing to increase … legal immigration after receiving the information treatment. Finally, we also measure the same self-reported policy …

natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our … sectors/occupations where the share of migrants is necessarily smaller, suggesting that migrants and low-educated natives are … role of immigration in host societies, with a positive effect on tolerance of diversity and a positive effect on the …

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

This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In … particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in absence of … stringent immigration policies and large volumes of undocumented immigration. We test this hypothesis using US data from the 7th …

-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that … attitudes. While intergenerational associations in attitudes towards immigration are equally high for sons and daughters, we …