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This paper provides new evidence regarding public opinion on immigration by studying the Spanish case, and by analyzing … not only respondents' preferences regarding immigration levels, but also regarding admittance policies and the rights and … benefits to grant to foreigners. In general, Spaniards support less immigration, and more selectivity based on skills and …
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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 …
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-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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant … spillovers from maternal education to immigration attitudes of her offspring. While we find no evidence for returns to education …
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worsen crime. In contrast, native opinions on the impact of immigration on culture and the labor market are unrelated to the …
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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 … non-random location choices of immigrants and find that immigration has no adverse effects on regional unemployment rates …
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Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts are...
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elasticity of immigration to public attitudes is higher than the elasticity of immigration to economic factors for EU migrants …This paper examines the effects of natives' anti-immigration attitudes on migration flows to EU countries. We use panel … EU destinations. Our findings suggest that there is a negative causal relationship between anti-immigration attitudes and …
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