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 … more likely to believe that refugees are a resource for the economy and the culture, viewing them as an opportunity rather …

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 …

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 …

immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives' sentiments towards immigrants. It … immigration countries. Second, a new analysis of individual data from the OECD countries studies sentiments concerning immigration …, the results also suggest that natives may view immigration more favorably if immigrants are selected according to the …