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 …

There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the … of public opinion move differently over time and in response to different macro-level variables. The results suggest that … both dimensions need to be taken into account when assessing the overall climate of public opinion towards immigration …

education and attitudes towards immigration reflects economic self-interest in the labour market.Second, we develop an … that while the original relationship between education and attitudes found in the literature is unlikely to reflect …

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

from specialization in communication-intensive jobs, in addition to formal education. Second, we explicitly account for the … protection granted by job-specific human capital is clearly distinct from the protection granted by formal education. Yet the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …

that ethnic minorities do want to change their situation, especially in terms of employment, education, housing and … attitudes towards them. Insufficient knowledge of the official language, insufficient education, discriminatory attitudes and …