affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … study is that trade and capital movements are very unlikely to lead to an equalisation of factor prices. Thus, strong … associated with Eastern enlargement drawing on a time series model of immigration to Germany, which allows to estimate the long …

affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … study is that trade and capital movements are very unlikely to lead to an equalisation of factor prices. Thus, strong … associated with Eastern enlargement drawing on a time series model of immigration to Germany, which allows to estimate the long …

, testing for the importance of pairwise country links as well as characteristics of the receiving country (trade and financial … open- ness, exchange rate regime, fiscal variables). We find that trade integration fosters the spill-over of business … cycles, both bilaterally and as a country characteristic (trade openness). Results for financial integration are mixed …

This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …

In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people's attitudes towards immigration … education and attitudes towards immigration reflects economic self-interest in the labour market.Second, we develop an … alternative and more direct test of whether economic self-interest matters for people's attitudes towards immigration. We find …

Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor-market competition as a potent … immigration available from the 2003 European Social Survey. In contrast to predictions based on conventional arguments about labor …-market competition, which anticipate that individuals will oppose immigration of workers with similar skills to their own but support …

This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …