anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …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 …

are important positive factors. Negative experience of foreigners in terms of hostile attitudes, lack of voting rights, or …

This paper provides the first political economy model in which self-interested natives decide when voting rights should … be granted to foreign-born workers. This choice is driven by the maximization of th net gains from immigration. We focus … the migration choice to voting rights, are all decisive factors in determining the political choice over the optimal …

In this paper, we analyze the determination of immigration policy in a direct democracy setting. We formulate a model … of voting and participation behavior integrating instrumental and expressive motivations. The model is estimated using … immigration restrictions. The model enables us to recover estimates of participation costs and preferences towards immigration and …

of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …

the demographic change, this paper explores the incentives of heterogeneous migrants to acquire host country specific … cultural skills to improve their labor market outcomes. The theoretical results predict that the migrants` ambition in … achieving such skills is increased if the scope of their respective cultural group is small, social permeability of migrants in …

culture are willing to vote for free migration whereas those who have higher learning costs will be in favor of immigration …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on local election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of … distinctive reputation in immigration politics. In particular, our fixed-effects estimates indicate a positive effect for … xenophobic, extreme right-wing parties and an adverse effect for the Green party that actively campaigned for liberal immigration …

-worker system is preferred to a non-discriminatory immigration regime and why measures to improve the integration of low …