analyzing how firms in Switzerland were affected by the introduction of the free movement of persons with the European Union (EU …) countries. This immigration reform granted all EU workers free access to the Swiss labor market. Our firm-level panel data …

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 …

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …