We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Our causal identification relies on comparing …. Students who moved from East to West became more positive toward immigration. Results are confirmed among students whose move …

We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Our causal identification relies on comparing …. Students who moved from East to West became more positive toward immigration. Results are confirmed among students whose move …

Does the politico-economic system affect preferences for immigration? In this study, I show that individuals exposed to … life under state socialism have formed and persistently hold different attitudes toward immigration. By exploiting the … division and reunification of Germany, I estimate the influence of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration. Drawing on …

Does living in a communist regime make a person more concerned about immigration? This paper argues conceptually and … demonstrates empirically that people’s attitudes toward immigration are affected by their country's politico-economic legacy … Germans, because of their exposure to communism, are notably more likely to be very concerned about immigration than former …

indirect channel through which ideology may shape attitudes toward immigration policies. Focusing on Germany before and after …Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a … utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals’ perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at …

electorates discuss the loosening of immigration policies as one policy option to ensure the sustainability of public social … typically found to be more averse to immigration. However, crosssectional investigations may confound age with cohort effects …. This investigation uses the 1999-2008 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to separate the effect of age on immigration …

electorates discuss the loosening of immigration policies as one policy option to ensure the sustainability of public social … typically found to be more averse to immigration. However, cross-sectional investigations may confound age with cohort effects …. This investigation uses the 1999-2008 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to separate the effect of age on immigration …

electorates discuss the loosening of immigration policies as one policy option to ensure the sustainability of public social … typically found to be more averse to immigration. However, cross-sectional investigations may confound age with cohort effects ….This investigation uses the 1999-2008 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to separate the effect of age on immigration attitudes …

The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable … of worries 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 …