paper also provides evidence that racism and immigration phobia play a key role in shaping Europeans' support of a ban on … Muslim immigration. This finding challenges the discourse and campaigns of the populist groups who exploit the 'Islamization … of Europe' rhetoric successfully and use various pretexts to justify a call for a ban on Muslims' immigration, e.g. the …

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 analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes … towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome … lecture on figures and numbers on immigration in Italy and the world. On average, students develop better attitudes towards …

We analyze whether (correct) information provision on immigration is more effective than contact in shaping attitudes … towards immigration. We collect data from a randomized experiment in 18 middle- and high-school classes in the city of Rome … immigration in Italy and the world. On average, students develop better attitudes towards immigration (especially in the case of …

international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants …

most preferred host countries for immigration. Using the recent waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, we find … that the immigrant-native gap in risk preferences has widened for recent immigration cohorts, especially around the 2015 … found among migrants who are female, highly educated, proficient in the host language, self-employed and working in …

We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …

Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …

treatment groups. The current analysis suggests that following the EU Referendum Results Non-EU migrants experienced an …