Cosmopolitan or anxious? In order to test the influence of conflicting aspects of identity, German respondents were asked about their attitude towards a Syrian refugee the description of whom was varied in various domains (N=662). Once the refugee is described as being aware of as well as open...

In 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to allow over a million asylum seekers to cross the border into Germany. One key concern at the time was that her decision would signal an open-door policy to aspiring migrants worldwide – thus, increasing migration to Germany in the long-term....

Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming an increasingly important destination for international migration. The region hosts immigrants from other African countries and from other parts of the world, such as China. Given high poverty levels and weak social security systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, host...

Eine höhere Nettozuwanderung nach Deutschland könnte ein Schlüssel zur Abmilderung der Alterung der Erwerbsbevölkerung werden. Doch welche Migrationspotenziale existieren weltweit und wie groß wird die resultierende Zuwanderung voraussichtlich sein? Deutschland ist eines der präferierten...

This paper connects insights from the literature on cosmopolitan values in political science, anxiety in social psychology, and identity economics in a vignette-style experiment. We asked German respondents about their attitudes towards a Syrian refugee, randomizing components of his description...

In diesem Kapitel wird untersucht, in welcher Weise reguläre und irreguläre Migration die Wohlfahrt beeinflusst. Nettowohlfahrtseffekte betreffen Migrant/innen, Herkunftsländer und Aufnahmeländer in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß und werden von den Merkmalen der Migrant/innen beeinflusst,...

Public attitudes toward immigration have attracted much scholarly interest and extensive empirical research in recent years. Despite a sizeable theoretical and empirical literature, no firm conclusions have been drawn regarding the factors affecting immigration opinion. We address this gap...