This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL … with other independent welfare measures to an extended gravity model of immigration for 16 OECD destination countries from … 1991 to 2000 suggests an insignificant role for QOL in the immigration process. The panel results suggest that other …

-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …

The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable … about immigration controlling for unobserved family specific effects.Our results suggest that benchmark models used in the … literature yield inconsistent estimates of the main determinants of attitudes towards immigration. …

Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given … potentially serious omitted-variables bias, questioning the validity of existing estimates of the effects of trade and immigration … on income. This paper provides estimates of the effects of trade and immigration on income in a unified framework. We …

. These results are robust to IV estimation strategies which control for the possibility of natives' selective out …

their opposition to future immigration. In turn, an open-minded and tolerant attitude promotes mutual trust and solidarity … natives' support for redistribution, with attitudes towards immigrants and immigration acting as mediators. By applying … losing intangible goods triggered by immigration is substantial in the formation of natives' socio-political attitudes …