from the EU-15 to Sweden after the inception of the European Economic Area (EEA) in 1994. We examine its effect on …

My paper analyzes the link between immigration and support for anti-immigrant parties in Europe. I assemble a unique …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from … social support than natives. Looking at the European countries, we distinguish between migrants within and from outside the … EU and find that within - EU migrants are similar to natives both in terms of their characteristics and social support …

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

move. European countries have selective policies with regards to the health, education and wealth of migrants, who self …

We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts … for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. …