This study examines the occupational mobility of antebellum immigrants as they entered the U.S. White collar, skilled …, and semi-skilled immigrants left unskilled jobs more rapidly after arrival than farmers and unskilled workers. British and … German immigrants fared better than the Irish; literate immigrants in rapidly growing counties and places with many …

This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy …-country policy regimes in the effects of returns to skills on the skill mix of immigrants …

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test … whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigrants took "simple" (manual-routine) type of occupations and natives moved, in response, toward more "complex" (abstract …

inflows of highly educated immigrants were associated with a change in the vote of citizens away from nationalism. However the … inflow of less educated immigrants was positively associated with a vote shift towards nationalist positions. These effects … were stronger for non-tertiary educated voters and in response to non-European immigrants. We also show that they are …

immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of … immigrants in their residence region is higher. This negative association is driven by regions of countries with relatively large … Welfare States and by respondents at the center or at the right of the political spectrum. The effects are also stronger when …

The paper analyzes the effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants. We develop … composition of immigrants under free migration is negative. The reason is that welfare state benefits attract unskilled migrants … a parsimonious model in which the effect of an increase in the generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill …

Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds … for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system … arise because the skill composition of migration is itself affected by the generosity of the welfare state …